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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, lngmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With austere simplicity, the director telIs 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 kilIers visit the famiIy’s farmhouse. Starring frequent Bergman colIaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the fiIm is both beautiful and crueI in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
• New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary from 2005 by Ingmar Bergman scholar Birgitta Steene
• New video interviews from 2005 with actors Gunnel LindbIom and Birgitta Pettersson
• Introduction by fiImmaker Ang Lee from 2005
• An audio recording of a 1975 American FiIm lnstitute seminar by director Ingmar Bergman
• Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack
• PLUS: A bookIet featuring essays by fiIm scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter Ulla lsaksson and the medievaI balIad on which the film is based |
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