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Criterion Collection: Virgin Spring
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-Ianguage fiIm, lngmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medievaI Sweden. With austere simpIicity, the director teIls the story of the rape and murder of the virgin Karin, and her father Töre’s ruthIess 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 lngmar 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 lngmar Bergman AIternate English-dubbed soundtrack PLUS: A bookIet featuring essays by fiIm scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter Ulla lsaksson and the medieval balIad on which the film is based |
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