The Virgin Spring (Criterion Collection)
Ravished innocence... brings terrible revenge!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 26, 2018
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Max Von Sydow, Brigitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom & Birgitta Petterson | |
Directed by | Ingmar Bergman | |
Composition by | Erik Nordgren | |
Director of Photography: | Sven Nykvist |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Bergman's instinctive approach to filmmaking %u2013 like his gripping use of long wordless moments filled with pictures of great power, is in evidence, with some unforgettable scenes that even today, almost 50 years later, have fresh impact.
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Urban Cinefile
The film is a seminal, Oscar-winning favorite...
USA Today
There is too much heavy symbolism and too many stagey groupings, both typical Bergman faults.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: A- --
Masterfully directed by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...One of Bergman's most austere films...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Easily lost amid a brilliant career, The Virgin Spring once again shows Bergman's control in capturing the furthest ranges of emotion.
Film Threat
Rating: 2/4 --
Overwrought and ineffective...
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Product Description:
Derived from a medieval ballad, THE VIRGIN SPRING was director Ingmar Bergman's first film to win an Academy Award. The movie represents a return to simpler themes for Bergman after the philosophical complexity of THE SEVENTH SEAL and WILD STRAWBERRIES. On its most basic level, it's the story of violent crime violently avenged, but it can also be interpreted as a religious allegory on Christian forgiveness. A young girl, Karin (Birgitta Pettersson), is raped and killed by two herdsman on her way to church. Her foster sister, played by Gunnel Lindblom, witnesses the crime and reports back to Karin's parents (Max von Sydow and Birgitta Valberg) shortly after the perpetrators arrive at the couple's home seeking shelter for the night, unaware of their hosts' identity. Karin's grief-stricken father decides to take brutal revenge on his daughter's murderers. THE VIRGIN SPRING represents Bergman's first full collaboration with director of photography Sven Nykvist, who had previously worked as a co-director of photography on SAWDUST AND TINSEL.
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- UPC: 715515217910
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