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Mood:
- BleakContemplativeAtmosphericGloomyThought Provoking
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Plot:
- ClergyHuman NatureIntrospectionPsychologicalRedemptionSelf DiscoveryInfidelityParents and Children more...
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Genres:
- DramaForeign
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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Place:
- Small TownVillage
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Winter Light, 1963
Swedish
Sweden
Profile of Winter Light
Winter Light can be described as bleak, contemplative, and thought provoking. The plot revolves around the clergy, religions or cults, and redemption. The main genres are drama and foreign. In approach, Winter Light is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, in a village and in a small town. Winter Light takes place in the 1960s. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Winter Light
The second film of Ingmar Bergman's trilogy on religion and the loss of faith--the other two being THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY and THE SILENCE)--is an unrelentingly austere minimalist drama that takes place in a small village surrounded by a bleak, wintry landscape. Local pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Björnstrand) has been left cold and hardened by the untimely death of his wife, his religious convictions severely shaken. He is incapable of offering counsel to a suicidal member of the congregation who comes to him for help, fisherman Jonas Persson (Max von Sydow), and cannot return the affection of schoolteacher Märta (Ingrid Thulin) after she confesses her love for him. The characters' anguish, isolation, and despair at the prospect of an absent or uncaring God are mirrored by the film's stark setting, flawlessly captured by cinematographer Sven Nykvist, in one of many collaborations with Bergman. While the figure of the stern, unfeeling clergyman was probably at least partially inspired by memories of the director's own father, a strict Lutheran minister, Bergman based his script on a true story told to him by a small-town parson who suffered from severe guilt after failing to talk one of his parishioners out of committing suicide.
Details
| Language: | Swedish |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Release date: | 13 May 1963 |
| Runtime: | 81 min |
Cast and Crew
as Jonas Persson
as Tomas Ericsson, Pastor
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