Exploring Ethical Art Themes in Thoughts of Shahid Motahari and the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman

The goal of this research is a comparative study of the thoughts of Shahid Motahari and those of Ingmar Bergman (the notable Swedish filmmaker) considering his movies. Shahid Motahari has dealt with topics like ethics, beauty, sublime art and poor (non-sublime) art, philosophy of cinema, woman in cinema, crises of the modern world, death, etc. under ethical cinema. With the conduction of a comprehensive study of the transcendental cinema of Bergman and studying his sayings in both written and unwritten resources, we achieve striking similarities between the viewpoints and the artistic-philosophical worlds of the two, the comparative-descriptive study of which will open a new window to better understand the religious and transcendental concepts. The philosophy of resurrection and survival, death and the belief in the hereafter, theology, and the element of “faith” are among the themes extracted from Bergman’s works.