Ingmar Bergman"s the Silence When The Silence was released in 1963, Bergman"s stature allowed the film"s depiction of sexuality to challenge the boundaries of the censorship boards in Sweden and the U.S. Yet, Swedish film critic Maaret Koskinen--one of the first scholars given access to Bergman"s private papers--found his notebooks revealed his tendency to self-censorship, as well as the difficulties he experienced in writing Full description