Films are `butchery' - Bergman

Stockholm - A Swedish film director, Mr Ingmar Bergman, thinks of the movie business as an industry of butchery and whoring according…

Stockholm - A Swedish film director, Mr Ingmar Bergman, thinks of the movie business as an industry of butchery and whoring according to a rare interview published yesterday.

Mr Bergman (82) is a recluse who usually shuns journalists and seldom ventures into the public eye. "I have left, after all, the branch of butchery and whoring," Mr Bergman told the Swedish Expressen newspaper. Asked what he meant, Mr Bergman answered, "Yes, films."