The Virgin Spring

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Awards

Academy Awards 1961 - Nominated - Best Costume Design, B&W

Academy Awards 1961 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film

Cannes Film Festival 1960 - Nominated - Palme d'Or

Cannes Film Festival 1960 - Won - Special Mention

Academy Awards 1961 - Nominated - Best Costume Design, B&W

Academy Awards 1961 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film

Cannes Film Festival 1960 - Nominated - Palme d'Or

Cannes Film Festival 1960 - Won - Special Mention

Golden Globe Awards 1961 - Won - Best Foreign Film

Kinema Junpo Awards 1962 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film

Kinema Junpo Awards 1962 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film Director

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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.

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Runtime:
89 min.

Genres:
Drama
Foreign Language

Country:
SWEDEN

Language:
Swedish

Color:
Color

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Part of the 50 Years of Arthouse Film boxed set from Janus Films

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SPECIAL FEATURES:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary by Ingmar Bergman scholar Birgitta Steene
New video interviews with actresses Gunnel Lindblom and Birgitta Pettersson
Introduction by filmmaker Ang Lee
An audio recording of a 1975 American Film Institute seminar by Bergman
Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
New and improved English subtitle translation
A 28-page booklet featuring essays by film scholar Peter Cowie and screenwriter Ulla Isaksson, the medieval ballad on which the film is based, and a letter from Bergman on the film's controversial rape scene

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Directed by
Ingmar Bergman

Writing credits
Ulla Isaksson

Cast

Birgitta Valberg
Max von Sydow
Birgitta Pettersson
Gunnel Lindblom
Tor Isedal
Allan Edwall
Axel Duberg

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