Winter Light (1962)

Recommended

Sweden

Feature Film

Original Title: Nattvardsgästerna

Writer/Director: Ingmar Bergman

Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist

Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow, Allan Edwall, Kolbjörn Knudsen, Olof Thunberg, Elsa Ebbesen

In light of God’s continuing silence and his and his dwindling parishioners’ fears, pains, crises, and losses, a middle-aged pastor begins to question his faith, in Bergman’s pessimistic, talky, and humourless yet beautifully acted and painfully compelling portrait of broken men living in a broken world. Iain.Stott