Winter Light
Ingmar Bergman / SE, 1962 / 81 min.
Beautifully filmed, exceptionally intense Kammerspiel about a priest with doubts who can no longer console his parishioners. In Winter Light Ingmar Bergman films the latter’s search for meaning in a pointless existence and world god seems to have abandoned.
Village priest Tomas Ericsson fulfills his tasks on autopilot for his ever-declining number of parishioners. The fragile churchgoers desperately need consoling. One of them, the fisherman (Max von Sydow) has a paralysing fear of nuclear war. He hope the priest can comfort him, but Tomas has nothing to offer but his own religious doubts which drives the man to suicide.
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Director
Ingmar Bergman
Production year
1962
Country
SE
Original title
Nattvardsgästerna
Length
81 min.
Language
Swedish
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Winter Light
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