Hong Kong Liberal Religious Forum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman

He grew up surrounded by religious imagery and discussion. His father was a conservative parish minister with extreme-right political sympathies and a strict family father. Ingmar was locked up in dark closets for infractions such as wetting the bed. "While father preached away in the pulpit and the congregation prayed, sang, or listened," Ingmar wrote in his autobiography Laterna Magica,

"I devoted my interest to the church's mysterious world of low arches, thick walls, the smell of eternity, the colored sunlight quivering above the strangest vegetation of medieval paintings and carved figures on ceilings and walls. There was everything that one's imagination could desire — angels, saints, dragons, prophets, devils, humans."

Though he grew up in a devout Lutheran household, Bergman later stated that he lost his faith at age eight and only came to terms with this fact while making Winter Light.



http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8B%B1% ... C%E6%9B%BC

父親艾瑞克·褒曼（Erik Bergman）是路德會丹麥派的牧師，後來成為瑞典國王的專屬牧師；母親是女演員卡琳·艾葛伯隆（Karin Åkerblom或Karin Bergman）。關於宗教的形象與討論圍繞着他的成長。他的父親是相當保守的教區牧師，也是個嚴父：英瑪曾因為像尿濕床這樣的過錯而被鎖在黑暗的衣櫥中。「當父親在講壇上傳道，群眾在禱告、歌頌或聆聽時，」英瑪·褒曼在他的自傳《魔燈》（Laterna Magica）之中寫到：

「我沉浸在教堂的神秘世界之中：矮拱門、厚牆、永恆的氣味，陽光在牆上、天花板上的中世紀圖繪、雕刻上顫動着。一個人的想像力所能企望的，那裡都有──天使、聖徒、龍、先知、惡魔、人。」

雖然他在一個虔誠的路德教家庭中長大，但是褒曼卻陳述了直到創作《冬之光》（Nattvardsgästerna，又譯為《冬日之光》）之後，才接受了他在八歲便喪失了信仰。



http://paper.wenweipo.com/2007/08/07/FA0708070001.htm

http://entbig5.jxnews.com.cn/system/200 ... 2931.shtml

(a nice review of Winter Light, probably from CU Student Press)