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