Ingmar Bergman in the first press conference and interview after his voluntary exile in 1976. In January 1976, Ingmar Bergman suffered a trauma that drove him into exile for several years. In the middle of a rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, he was picked up by the police on suspicion of tax offences. There was little substance in the suspicions and the charges were dropped. But Bergman was so offended that he and his wife Ingrid left the country and settled in Munich. Bergman did a number of theatre productions, a feature film "The Serpent's Egg" (1977) and a TV-movie "Aus dem Leben der Marionetten" (1980).—SVT