Winter Light

Winter Light

1963 · 80 min · SV · 7.9 (528 votes)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Starring Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow, Allan Edwall, Kolbjörn Knudsen · Music Evald Andersson
Drama

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

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A stark, unvarnished look at spiritual crisis. It feels like a long, cold winter night, where existential dread settles in, leaving you questioning everything. The silence is as heavy as the dialogue.

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