The Virgin Spring
The Virgin Spring Swedish Jungfrukllan is a 1960 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in medieval Sweden, it is a revenge tale about a fathers merciless response to the rape and murder of his young daughter. The story was adapted by screenwriter Ulla Isaksson from a 13thcentury Swedish ballad, Tres dttrar i Wnge Tres daughters in Vnge. The film contains a number of themes that question morals, justice and religious beliefs it was considered controversial when first released due to its infamous rape scene. It won for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1961 Academy Awards and was also the basis for the 1972 exploitation horror film The Last House on the Left.
Ingeri encounters a oneeyed man at the streamside mill. When Ingeri asks about his name he enigmatically responds he has none in these days. The man tells Ingeri that he can see and hear things others can not. When the man makes sexual advances towards her and promises her power, Ingeri flees in terror. Meanwhile, Karin meets three herdsmen two men and a boy and invites them to eat her lunch with her. Eventually, the two older men rape and murder Karin while Ingeri watches, hidden, from a distance. The two older men then leave the scene with Karins clothing. The younger a boy is left with the body and to watch the goats, but he takes the situation poorly and quickly becomes sick with guilt.The herders then, unknowingly, seek shelter at the home of the murdered girl. Her parents, played by Max von Sydow and Birgitta Valberg, discover that the goat herders murdered their daughter when the goat herders offer to sell Karins clothes to her mother. After they fall asleep, the mother locks the trio in the chamber. Ingeri returns to the farm and breaks down in front of the father she tells him about the rape and confesses that she secretly wished for Karins death out of jealousy. She does not mention her encounter with the oneeyed man. In a rage, the father stabs one of the herders to death with a strange dagger before killing the other two with his bare hands. ........
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