The Virgin Spring
The Virgin Spring
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1h 29m
Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1960 • Sweden
Starring Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Ingmar Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With austere simplicity, the director tells the story of the rape and murder of the virgin Karin, and her father Töre’s ruthless pursuit of vengeance against the three killers. Starring Max von Sydow and photographed by the brilliant Sven Nykvist, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity.
Up Next in The Virgin Spring
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THE VIRGIN SPRING Commentary
Recorded exclusively for The Criterion Collection, in 2005, this commentary features Birgitta Steene, professor emerita in cinema studies and Scandinavian literature at the University of Washington, and the author of Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide (2005).
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Gunnel Lindblom and Birgitta Pettersson
In these interviews, conducted in Stockholm in August 2005, actors Gunnel Lindblom and Birgitta Pettersson reflect on working with director Ingmar Bergman and their experiences making THE VIRGIN SPRING.
