Jungfrukällan The virgin spring

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Jungfrukällan = The virgin spring

regi, Ingmar Bergman ; manuscript efter en legendvisa från 1300-talet, Ulla Isaksson

(The Criterion collection, 321 . Ingmar Bergman four masterworks)

Criterion Collection, c2006

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In Swedish and English; with English subtitles

Cast: Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom ... [et al.]

Credits: Cinematography, Sven Nykvist ; editing, Oscar Rosander ; music, Erik Nordgren

Originally released as a Swedish motion picture in 1960

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

DVD; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Recorded in Dolby digital mono

Summary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above

Special features: audio commentary by Ingmar Bergman scholar Birgitta Steene; introduction by filmmaker Ang Lee; new video interviews with actresses Gunnel Lindblom and Birgitta Pettersson; audio recording of a 1975 American Film Institute seminar by Bergman, a 28-page booklet featuring: essays by film scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter Ulla Isaksson; medieval ballad on which the film is based; and a letter from Bergman on the film's controversial rape scene

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