Feb 11, 1963
80 min
Full-HD

Winter Light (1963)

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

Category

Drama

Country

Sweden

Companies

SF Studios

Gunnar Björnstrand

Tomas Ericsson

Ingrid Thulin

Märta Lundberg

Max von Sydow

Jonas Persson

Gunnel Lindblom

Karin Persson

Allan Edwall

Algot Frövik

Kolbjörn Knudsen

Knut Aronsson

Olof Thunberg

Fredrik Blom

Elsa Ebbesen-Thornblad

Magdalena Ledfors

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