New Delhi, July 13 -- At the Karlovy Vary film festival, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (74) made explosive comments about legendary director Ingmar Bergman.

While accepting a Crystal Globe award, Skarsgard called Bergman "a Nazi during the war" and claimed he was "the only person I know who cried when Hitler died".

He described Bergman as deeply "manipulative" with a "very weird outlook" that treated some people as "not worthy".

These remarks reference Bergman's own admissions: In his 1987 memoir, Bergman wrote he was "on Hitler's side" for years and kept Hitler's photo by his bed as a teen after seeing him speak in 1934.

Skarsgard worked with Bergman on a 1986 stage play, but called their relationship "complicated" due to Bergman's...