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Jungfrukällan = The virgin spring / Janus Films ; Svensk Filmindustri ; manuscript efter en legend visa från 1300-talet, Ulla Isaksson ; regi, Ingmar Bergman.
LIBRA DVD 008 028 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 321.
- The Criterion collection ; 321
- Language:
- English
- Swedish
- Subjects (All):
- Rape victims--Sweden--Drama.
- Rape victims.
- Murder--Drama.
- Murder.
- Sweden.
- Revenge--Drama.
- Revenge.
- Motion pictures, Swedish.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Director-approved special edition.
- Other Title:
- Virgin spring
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2006]
- Language Note:
- In Swedish with optional English subtitles or English dubbed version.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital mono; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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.
- Participant:
- Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Oscar Rosander ; music, Erik Nordgren.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Originally released as a Swedish motion picture in 1960.
- 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, the medieval ballad on which the film is based, and a letter from Bergman on the film's controversial rape scene.
- Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
- ISBN:
- 155940969X
- OCLC:
- 62214868
- Publisher Number:
- 715515017121
- CC1621D Criterion Collection
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