Jungfrukallan / The Virgin Spring (1960) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection
on January 15th, 2022 at 07:30
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.
Karin is the lovely and spoiled daughter of a very well-off rural Swedish family with ties to the church. When Karin is appointed by her adoring mother and father to deliver candles to the local priest, she is accompanied by the family's jealous and very pregnant maid, Ingeri, on the journey. However, when Ingeri's worship of Norse god Odin leads to an awkward encounter with a man in the woods, Karin continues on the journey alone, and meets three vagrants on the road. When Karin is raped and murdered by two of the men, who then seek shelter with Karin's family, her father and mother are left with the torturous decision of whether to seek revenge as their hearts' desire or forgive their daughter's killers as god commands.
Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Country: Sweden
Genre: Drama
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