Product Information
The second in Ingmar Bergman's religious trilogy which studies a village pastor, empty of faith and desperately unloved, who reveals his bitter failure to offer spiritual consolation to his flock. Swedish dialogue.Product Identifiers
EAN5023965334725
eBay Product ID (ePID)3948775
Product Key Features
ActorMax von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjrnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom
Film/TV TitleWinter Light
DirectorIngmar Bergman
LanguageSwedish
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time77 Mins
FormatDVD
Release Year2001
FeaturesBlack & White, With Subtitles, Star And Director Filmographies\Scene Selection\Philip Strick Film Notes\Extract From Bergmans Book Images My Life In Film\The Bergman Collection Trailer
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureSweden
Additional InformationThe 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 Bjornstrand) 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 Marta (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.
ScreenwriterIngmar Bergman
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Format DescriptionDVD 5
Movie/TV TitleWinter Light
Director of PhotographySven Nykvist