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

ISBN

155940969X

Edition

Director-approved special ed.

Published

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2006.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1booklet

Notes

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.

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

In Swedish with optional English subtitles or English dubbed version.

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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.

Variant and related titles

Jungfrukällan

Disc label title: Virgin spring

Format

Images / Video & Film

Language

Swedish; English

Added to Catalog

February 16, 2006

Series

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 321.

The Criterion collection ; 321