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Criterion Collection: Virgin Spring
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a harrowing taIe of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With austere simplicity, the director teIIs the story of the rape and murder of the virgin Karin, and her father Töre’s ruthless pursuit of vengeance, set in motion after the killers visit the famiIy’s farmhouse. Starring frequent Bergman coIIaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES
• New 2K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary from 2005 by Ingmar Bergman schoIar Birgitta Steene
• New video interviews from 2005 with actors GunneI Lindblom and Birgitta Pettersson
• lntroduction by filmmaker Ang Lee from 2005
• An audio recording of a 1975 American Film Institute seminar by director Ingmar Bergman
• Alternate EngIish-dubbed soundtrack
• PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter UIIa Isaksson and the medieval baIlad on which the fiIm is based |
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