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The Virgin Spring

Jungfrukällan (1960)

Drama, Horror | Sweden

Director: Ingmar Bergman

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In cinema from 16/01/1980

Rating: 8.1/10

User rating: 8.8/10
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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.

Actors

Writer: Ulla Isaksson

Producer: Ingmar Bergman, Carl Anders Dymling

RUNTIME: 89 min

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