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The only director we could get ...

At 22, in the fall of 1940, it seemed Bergman could already have stated what he proclaimed 23 years later, when he became head of Dramaten, the Royal Dramatic Theater in 1963: 'I have no long history, but I can become a piece of history myself.' 

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