Winter Light
Plot
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
About Winter Light
Winter Light (Swedish: Nattvardsgästerna, lit. 'The Communicants') is a 1963 Swedish tragedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring his regulars, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom and Max von Sydow. It follows Tomas Ericsson (Björnstrand), pastor of a small rural Swedish church, as he deals with an existential crisis and his Christianity. The film is the second in a series of thematically related films, following Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and followed by The Silence (1963); this is sometimes considered a trilogy. In it, Bergman reconsiders Through a Glass Darkly's argument that God is love, and repeated the prior film's reference to God as a monstrous spider. Bergman formed the story after speaking to a clergyman whose parishioner committed suicide. The film was shot in different locations in Sweden in 1962. Vilgot Sjöman's film Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie was made simultaneously with Winter Light and documents its production. The feature received positive reviews for its cinematography and themes.
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Cast
Ingrid ThulinMärta Lundberg
Gunnar BjörnstrandTomas Ericsson
Gunnel LindblomKarin Persson
Max von SydowJonas Persson
Allan EdwallAlgot Frövik
Kolbjörn KnudsenKnut Aronsson
Olof ThunbergFredrik Blom
Elsa Ebbesen-ThornbladMagdalena Ledfors
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- Persona1966 · FilmSame director: Ingmar Bergman
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