Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Winter Light or On The Bowery?

The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters is a 1954 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on June 6, 1954 by Allied Artists and is the thirty-fourth film in the series. <SEP> Winter Light is a 1963 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bergman regulars Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. The film follows Tomas Ericsson( Björnstrand), pastor of a small rural Swedish church, as he deals with an existential crisis and his Christianity. The film is the second in a series of thematically related films, following" Through a Glass Darkly"( 1961) and followed by" The Silence"( 1963), which is sometimes considered a trilogy. In it, Bergman reconsidered" Through a Glass Darkly" s argument that God is love, and repeated the prior film's reference to God as a monstrous spider. Bergman formed the story after speaking to a clergyman whose follower committed suicide. It was shot in different locations in Sweden in 1962. Vilgot Sjöman's film" Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie" was made simultaneously with" Winter Light" and documents its production. The feature received positive reviews. <SEP> Ernst Ingmar Bergman( 14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio. Considered to be among the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of all time, Bergman's films include" Smiles of a Summer Night"( 1955)," The Seventh Seal"( 1957)," Wild Strawberries"( 1957)," Persona"( 1966)," Cries and Whispers"( 1972)," Scenes from a Marriage"( 1973), and" Fanny and Alexander"( 1982); the last two exist in extended television versions. Bergman directed over sixty films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television screenings, most of which he also wrote. He also directed over 170 plays. He eventually forged a creative partnership with his cinematographers Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvist. Among his company of actors were Harriet and Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in Sweden, and many films from" Through a Glass Darkly"( 1961) onward were filmed on the island of Fårö. Philip French referred to Bergman as" one of the greatest artists of the 20th century ... he found in literature and the performing arts a way of both recreating and questioning the human condition." Director Martin Scorsese commented; " If you were alive in the 50s and the 60s and of a certain age, a teenager on your way to becoming an adult, and you wanted to make movies, I do n't see how you could n't be influenced by Bergman ... It's impossible to overestimate the effect that those films had on people." <SEP> The film, Rogosin's first feature was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. On the Bowery is a 1956 American docufiction film directed by Lionel Rogosin. After the Second World War, Lionel Rogosin made a vow to fight fascism and racism wherever he found it. In 1954, he left the family business, the Beaunit Mills- American Rayon Corporation, in order to make films in accordance with his ideals. As he needed experience, he looked around for a subject and was struck by the plight of the men on the Bowery, and he determined that a portrayal of their daily lives on the streets and in the bars of the New York City neighborhood would make a strong film. Thus," On the Bowery" served as Rogosin's practice film for the subsequent filming of his anti-apartheid film" Come Back, Africa"( 1960). In 2008," On the Bowery" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". <SEP> Lionel Rogosin( January 22, 1924, New York City, New York – December 8, 2000, Los Angeles, California) was an independent American filmmaker. Rogosin worked in political cinema, non-fiction partisan filmmaking and docufiction, influenced by Italian neorealism and Robert Flaherty. <SEP> Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie is a 1963 Swedish documentary film directed by Vilgot Sjöman which depicts the making of Ingmar Bergman's film" Winter Light" from screenwriting to the film's premiere and critical reaction. The film originally aired in five half- hour episodes on Swedish television. It has subsequently been included in a bonus disc of The Criterion Collection's box set of Bergman's" trilogy, Through a Glass Darkly"( 1961)," Winter Light", and" The Silence"( 1963).