The Auteur’s Soap Commercials (Gotta Pay The Rent)

What did art filmmaker Ingmar Bergman do in the 1950s when he was short of cash? He made soap commercials. “He had eight children to feed, a long-running strike had paralysed the Swedish film industry, and theatres were closed for the summer. He needed to work. It was inevitable that film historians would track down the missing films…”