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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.
Set in creepy 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of wealthy land-owning parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse.
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.
Aug 7, 2021 · 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 ...
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...
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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 ...
The existential revenge drama that inspired Wes Craven’s horror classic The Last House on the Left, The Virgin Spring was Ingmar Bergman’s second collaboration with cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Despite being one of the Swedish maestro’s most vicious films, it was the first to win him an Oscar®!
