Pastor Gunnar Björnstrand has lost faith in God after the death of his wife and is discomfited when he is unable to comfort Max von Sydow, who lives in fear of a nuclear holocaust. Rejecting the advances of schoolteacher Ingrid Thulin, he must come to terms with God’s silence in this gloomy, engrossing study, shot with “rigorous simplicity” (Roger Ebert) by Sven Nykvist.

In Swedish with English subtitles