The Virgin Spring

Name: The Virgin Spring
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1960-02-08
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson, Axel Düberg

Ravished innocence... brings terrible revenge!

Jungfrukällan (1960)

Timing: 1:30 (90 min)

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Production

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Budget

Box office

$700 000

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Director

Ingmar Bergman

Actors

Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson, Axel Düberg, Allan Edwall, Tor Isedal, Ove Porath, Axel Slangus, Gudrun Brost
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Scenario

Producer

Ingmar Bergman, Allan Ekelund

Camera operator

Sven Nykvist

Composer

Erik Nordgren

Artist

P.A. Lundgren

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Editing

Oscar Rosander
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Short description

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

What's left behind the scenes

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) called this film "a pale imitation of Kurosawa."
The film was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's (1910-1998) crime drama "Rashomon" (1950).