#A18/#321: BERGMAN, Ingmar: The Virgin Spring (1960)

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden)

The Virgin Spring [1960]

Spine #A18/Spine #321

Blu-ray/DVD

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity, and of one father's need to avenge the death of a child.

89 minutes
Black & White

Monaural

in Swedish

1:33:1 aspect ratio

Criterion Release 2006/2018

Director/Writers

Ingmar Bergman was 42 when he directed The Virgin Spring.
Screenplay by Ulla Isaksson.

Other Bergman films in the Collection:

#A1/Eclipse Series 1: Crisis (1946)
#A2/Eclipse Series 1: A Ship to India (1947)

#A3/Eclipse Series 1: Port of Call (1948)
#A4/Eclipse Series 1: Thirst (1949)
#A5/Eclipse Series 1: To Joy (1950)
#A6: Summer Interlude (1951)
#A7: Waiting Women (1952)
#A8: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
#A9: Summer With Monica (1953)
#A10: A Lesson in Love (1954)
#A11: Dreams (1955)
#A12: Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
#A13/#11: The Seventh Seal (1957)
#A14/#139: Wild Strawberries (1957)
#A15: Brink of Life (1958)
#A16/#537: The Magician (1958)
#A17: The Devil's Eye (1960)
#A19/#209: Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
#A20/#211: The Silence (1963)
#A21/#210: Winter Light (1962)
#A22: All These Women (1964)
#A23/#701: Persona (1966)
#A24: Hour of the Wolf (1968)
#A25/#961: Shame (1968)
#A26: The Passion of Anna (1969)
#A27: The Rite (1969)
#A28: Fårö Document [1970)

#A29: The Touch (1971)
#A30/#101: Cries and Whispers (1972)
#A31/#229: Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
#A32/#71: The Magic Flute (1975)
#A33: The Serpent's Egg (1977)
#A34/#60: Autumn Sonata (1978)
#A35: Fårö Document 1979 (1979)

#A36: From the Life of Marionettes (1980)
#A37/#263: Fanny and Alexander -- The Theatrical Version (1982)
#A38/#262: Fanny and Alexander -- The Television Version (1982)
#A39/#264: The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1982)
#A40: After the Rehearsal (1984)
#A41: Saraband (2003)

The Film

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The Extras

The Booklet

Thirty-two page booklet featuring essays by Peter Cowie, Isaksson, Töre’s Daughter at Vänge: The Ballad, and Censoring The Virgin Spring.

Commentary

By Bergman scholar Birgitta Steene.

Introduction

By filmmaker Ang Lee.

Video interviews

With actresses Lindblom and Pettersson.

Audio recording

Of a 1975 American Film Institute seminar by Bergman.

Documentary 3

Controversial altered ending

Theatrical trailer

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