THE VIRGIN SPRING
synopsis
Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of wealthy land-owning parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge.
international title: | The Virgin Spring |
original title: | Jungfrukällan |
country: | Sweden |
year: | 1960 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ingmar Bergman |
film run: | 89' |
release date: | SE 08/02/1960, FR 16/05/1960, UK 08/1960, DE 09/09/1960, DK 15/09/1960, IT 22/12/1960, PT 11/10/1961, ES 09/11/1961, FI 14/10/1966, GR 05/10/2003, PL 01/12/2006, TR 04/04/2009 |
screenplay: | Ulla Isaksson |
cast: | Max Von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom |
cinematography by: | Sven Nykvist |
film editing: | Oscar Rosander |
art director: | P.A. Lundgren |
costumes designer: | Marik Vos-Lundh |