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The Virgin Spring. The Virgin Spring ( Swedish: Jungfrukällan) is a 1960 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in medieval Sweden, it is a tale about a father's merciless response to the rape and murder of his young daughter. The story was adapted by screenwriter Ulla Isaksson from a 13th-century Swedish ballad, "Töres döttrar i ...
- $700,000 (USA)
- Ingmar Bergman, Allan Ekelund
The Virgin Spring tells the story, set in medieval Sweden, of a prosperous Christian whose daughter, Karin (Birgitta Pettersson) is appointed to take candles to the church. Karin is accompanied by her pregnant foster sister, Ingeri (Gunnel Lindblom), who secretly worships the Norse deity Odin. Along their way through the forest on horseback ...
Aug 7, 2021 · Swedish. 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 ...
- 89 min
- 7.6K
- Shadows of the Dark
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The Virgin Spring. 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 ...
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Devout Christians Töre and Märeta (Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg) send their only daughter, the virginal Karin (Birgritta Pettersson), and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri (Gunnel ...
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- Max Von Sydow
- Ingmar Bergman
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The Virgin Spring (1960) — (Movie Clip) She Lay Dead Max Von Sydow as stern feudal farmer Torè awaits his daughter, late from delivering candles to their church, not knowing she’s been raped and murdered by the nastiest of three goat-herders (Tore Isedal, with Axel Düberg and young Ove Porath) whom he barely offers shelter, Birgitta Valberg his wife, in Ingmar Bergman’s bitter The ...
The Virgin Spring (English Subtitled) Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity, and of one father's need to avenge the death of a child.
