Jungfrukällan (The virgin spring)
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Foreign Title: Jungfrukällan
Date: January 01, 1960 to December 31, 1960
Dates Note: 1960
Country of Origin:
Sweden
Place of Origin: Sweden
Languages:
Swedish
Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: the 14th-century ballad “Töre’s Daughter in Vänge”
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Curator Notes
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In Focus: Ingmar BergmanDescription:
Bergman went to a medieval wellspring, a folk song whose simplicity and stark violence he recreated in purely visual terms, for his first collaboration with cinematographer Sven Nykvist. A girl in the bloom of innocent sensuality is raped and murdered. A young boy who has watched his brothers perform the act suffers along with them the terrible revenge of her father (Max von Sydow). Bergman’s medieval forays derive their strange beauty from the fact that early Christianity seems foreign and mythic to contemporary viewers. But no film in his oeuvre could be more modern in its Freudian overtones, and the agnosticism it provokes in the viewer.
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
Bergman 100: The Silence of GodDescription:
Bergman went to a medieval wellspring, a folk song whose simplicity and stark violence he recreated in purely visual terms, for his first collaboration with cinematographer Sven Nykvist. A girl in the bloom of innocent sensuality is raped and murdered. A young boy who has watched his brothers perform the act suffers along with them the terrible revenge of her father (Max von Sydow). Bergman’s medieval forays derive their strange beauty from the fact that early Christianity seems foreign and mythic to contemporary viewers. But no film in his oeuvre could be more modern in its Freudian overtones, and the agnosticism it provokes in the viewer.
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