The Passion of Anna (1969)

Erland Josephson: Elis Vergérus, Self

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Quotes 

• Anna Fromm : I try to busy myself with things I believe in. To live in line with some form of truth.

  Andreas Winkelman : How do you know which is right?

  Anna Fromm : People feel what is true and what is right. We fail, but I think we should strive for spiritual perfection.

  Elis Vergerus : Do you often fail?

  Anna Fromm : I have not failed in what's most important: living in a relationship with the man I was married to. Andreas. Do you know why I didn't fail? Because we lived in harmony, because we were truthful and honest. We believed in each other. If I'd treated marriage the way you treat your center, I wouldn't have had happy memories. I wouldn't have had anything to believe in.

• Elis Vergerus : I don't presume to reach people's souls with my photography. Definitely not. I can only register the interaction of large and small forces. Then you look at the image and let imagination take over. It's all nonsense. Plays, poems. You can't read another human being with any sort of certainty. Even horrendous physical pain will not always register.