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Jungfrukällan [videorecording] = The virgin spring / Janus Films ; [presented by] Svensk Filmindustri ; manuscript efter en legend visa från 1300-talet, Ulla Isaksson ; regi, Ingmar Bergman.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1621D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Swedish, English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 321.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2006.Edition: Director-approved special edDescription: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 155940969X
  • 9781559409698
Other title:
  • Disc label title: Virgin spring
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .J864478535536 2006
Contents:
Ingeri -- Prayers and morning chores -- A malicious gesture -- Spoiled Karin -- Traveling to church -- Karin and Ingeri -- The old man in the woods -- Three goatherds -- Princess Karin -- Tragedy -- Keeping watch -- Hospitality -- Frightening words -- Mareta worries -- The truth : Ingeri's confession -- Preparations -- Töre's revenge -- Journey to the site -- Töre's vow -- The virgin spring.
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Sven Nykvist ; editing, Oscar Rosander ; music, Erik Nordgren ; DVD producer, Johanna Schiller.
Awards:
  • Academy Awards, 1960: Best Foreign Language Film.
Cast: Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson.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.
Holdings
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Visual Materials Visual Materials Nash Library Lobby DVD boxes DVD 287 Available 33710001201651

DVD.

In Swedish with optional English subtitles or English dubbed version.

Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson.

Cinematography, Sven Nykvist ; editing, Oscar Rosander ; music, Erik Nordgren ; DVD producer, Johanna Schiller.

Originally released as a Swedish motion picture in 1960.

Series numbering from container spine.

"1.33:1 aspect ratio"--Container.

Recorded in Dolby digital mono.

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 ; essays by film scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter Ulla Isaksson; audio recording of a 1975 American Film Institute seminar by Bergman; medieval ballad on which the film is based; and a letter from Bergman on the film's controversial rape scene.

Academy Awards, 1960: Best Foreign Language Film.

Ingeri -- Prayers and morning chores -- A malicious gesture -- Spoiled Karin -- Traveling to church -- Karin and Ingeri -- The old man in the woods -- Three goatherds -- Princess Karin -- Tragedy -- Keeping watch -- Hospitality -- Frightening words -- Mareta worries -- The truth : Ingeri's confession -- Preparations -- Töre's revenge -- Journey to the site -- Töre's vow -- The virgin spring.