The Virgin Spring
Ingmar Bergman / SE, 1959 / 89 min.
Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-winning film The Virgin Spring tells a powerful story of belief and cruelty in Medieval Sweden where a father takes merciless revenge on his daughter’s murderers.
Ingmar Bergman based himself on a 13th-century Swedish folk tale in which an unsuspecting farmer’s daughter is raped and murdered in the forest. In turn, her father (Max von Sydow) murders the perpetrators when they ask for shelter at his home. A spring, the virgin spring, spontaneously develops at the rape site, where the religiously fanatical father wishes to build a church.
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Director
Ingmar Bergman
Production year
1959
Country
SE
Original title
Jungfrukällan
Length
89 min.
Language
Swedish, German
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Winter Light
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s influence remains significant, and interest in his work endures. Eye is releasing six digitally restored Bergman classics nationwide, including The Seventh Seal (1957) and Persona (1966), while also screening six other highlights in Eye.
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