A young peasant girl's defilement and murder, her father's oath of vengeance, and a spring that blossoms from the ground where the girl was killed...these are the elements in Ingmar Bergman's Oscar-winning drama of life and renewal, based on an ancient Scandinavian legend. Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson star. 89 min. Standard; Soundtracks: Swedish Dolby Digital mono, English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; interviews. In Swedish with English subtitles/Dubbed in English.
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 Tore's ruthless pursuit of vengeance, set in motion after the killers visit the family's farmhouse. Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in it's depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity.
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