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“God, why hast thou forsaken me?” With Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman explores the search for redemption in a meaningless existence. Small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Björnstrand) performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation, including his stubbornly devoted lover, Märta (Ingrid Thulin). When he is asked to assuage a troubled parishioner’s (Max von Sydow) debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can provide nothing but his own doubt. The beautifully photographed Winter Light is an unsettling look at the human craving for personal validation in a world seemingly abandoned by God.

Ingmar Bergman - (1963) Winter Light.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/C928838C1C58382/Ingmar_Bergman_-_(1963)_Winter_Light.mkv

Language(s):Swedish
Subtitles:English

The post Ingmar Bergman – Nattvardsgästerna AKA Winter Light (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

When Pontus, a poor writer, enters city life, he finds himself in a struggle. He spends his time selling what he can and looking for work. However, as he searches for food, his pangs eat at his sanity. Hesitant to admit his own poverty, Pontus drifts through the town, indigent and lonely, as the film captures his certain peril.

Sult.1966.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-pipe.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 46 min
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https://nitro.download/view/55D3CEBD7E892D5/Sult.1966.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-pipe.mkv

Language(s):Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Subtitles:English

The post Henning Carlsen – Sult aka Hunger (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Ann Fromm (Gundel Lindblom), age 34 and a lecturer in Slavic Languages, is married to Andreas (Per Myrberg), a 40-year-old architect. They introduce themselves to the TV audience as rich, happy, and uncomplicated. They are well-educated, well-mannered, and polite. Anna has had an affair with a common friend, Ellis (Erland Josephson), for 8 years. Their relationship is as conventional as a marriage. When Anna reveals her unfaithfulness to Andreas, their upper middle-class façade rupture. This event occurs in the same week as Martin Luther King is murdered.

Reservatet.1970.1080p.WEB.h264.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 31 min
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https://nitro.download/view/386BD372AA3D8F5/Reservatet.1970.1080p.WEB.h264.mkv

https://fikper.com/CXz5Kh4dgJ/Reservatet.1970.1080p.WEB.h264.mkv

Language(s):Swedish
Subtitles:English

The post Jan Molander – Reservatet (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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For her feature film directing debut, actress Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, “The Misses von Pahlen,” an intense and personal seven-part novel that has been likened to the great works of D.H. Lawrence. As three pregnant women from different backgrounds wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences via individual flashbacks. Drawing on the classic Ingmar Bergman style of Swedish filmmaking and collaborating with many of his favorite actors as well as the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Zetterling had produced a powerful fusion of personal emotional drama and a commentary on the role of women in a society in moral decline.

2.91GB | 1h 58mn | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/ED38E0DB2DD9829/Loving.Couples.1964.Mai.Zetterling.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

Language:Swedish
Subtitles:English,French

The post Mai Zetterling – Älskande par AKA Loving Couples (1964) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play “Lysistrata” in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.

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Alternating between Grecian theatrics and dreamlike wanderings, Mai Zetterling’s take on Lysistrata is a frank, funny, and introspective glimpse into the lives of three actresses, whose romantic experiences intersect with the themes of the play as they are performing it on tour. Through internal monologues, fanciful dream sequences, readings from the text, and slice of life moments, the film expounds upon its themes of patriarchal traditions in the supposedly “modern” age as well as the idea of passive vs active consumption of culture. It’s not exactly subtle in its gender politics but the earnest performances, stylish visuals, and almost playful construction made for an enjoyable and thought-provoking watch.(Alex Kittle, letterboxd)

13.6GB | 1h 40m | 1792×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9E364F0D0C8417D/Flickorna_AKA_The_Girls_-KG.mkv

Language(s):Swedish
Subtitles:English

The post Mai Zetterling – Flickorna AKA The Girls (1968) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Sally, a 28-year-old social worker who has just broken up from a ten-year marriage. She seeks freedom, but has trouble living alone. She soon finds a new man, lawyer Jonas, but Sally knows that the past is chasing her and do things more difficult for her freedom quest.

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The difficult balancing act between the desire to have a career and enjoy a full family life at the same time, and the tendency of feelings of freedom to lead to a feeling of rootlessness, pervade [Gunnel Lindblom’s] second film, Sally and Freedom (Sally och friheten, 1981). Even though this film, with its screenplay by Margareta Garpe, is more than 30 years old its themes are just as relevant now as they were then. What characterises Lindblom as a filmmaker is the fact that she wants to take up important current issues that she feels strongly about without preaching to her audience about what is right or wrong. Instead, she provides a complex picture of difficult and life-changing decisions in a thought-provoking way.
nordicwomeninfilm.com

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https://nitro.download/view/6AE4F697BAF6FCF/Sally.och.Friheten.1981.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.mkv

Language(s):Swedish
Subtitles:None

The post Gunnel Lindblom – Sally och friheten AKA Sally and Freedom (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena’s ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative seclusion with a mentally disturbed ballet dancer named Carl. Carl is brother by guilt rather than blood, for Martin is somehow responsible for his breakdown.

1.82GB | 1h 33m | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/593487F481CAB90/Brother_Carl_(1971).mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Susan Sontag – Bröder Carl (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.