Directed by:
Ingmar BergmanScreenplay:
Ulla IsakssonCinematography:
Sven NykvistComposer:
Erik NordgrenCast:
Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson, Axel Düberg, Tor Isedal, Allan Edwall, Ove Porath, Axel Slangus, Gudrun Brost (more)VOD (3)
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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, 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 its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity. (Criterion)
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Max von Sydow
Sweden
Best movies:
Shutter Island (2010)
Awakenings (1990)
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
Birgitta Valberg
Sweden
Best movies:
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Shame (1968)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Gunnel Lindblom
Sweden
Best movies:
Millennium (2010) (series)
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The Seventh Seal (1957)
Birgitta Pettersson
Sweden
Best movies:
The Virgin Spring (1960)
The Magician (1958)
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Axel Düberg
Sweden
Best movies:
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Shame (1968)
Tor Isedal
Sweden
Best movies:
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
The Doll (1962)
Allan Edwall
Sweden
Best movies:
Emil i Lönneberga (1971)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
You're Out of Your Mind, Mardie (1979)
Ove Porath
Sweden
Best movies:
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Axel Slangus
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Gudrun Brost
Sweden
Best movies:
Girl with Hyacinths (1950)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Oscar Ljung
Sweden
Best movies:
The Virgin Spring (1960)
The Magician (1958)
The New Land (1972)
Tor Borong
Sweden
Best movies:
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Winter Light (1963)