The Virgin Spring (1960) - (The Criterion Collection - #321) [DVD9] [2006]

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.









MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Ingmar Bergman
COUNTRY: Sweden
YEAR: 1960

Cast
Max von Sydow
Birgitta Valberg
Gunnel Lindblom
Birgitta Pettersson
Axel Düberg
Tor Isedal
Allan Edwall
Ove Porath

Credits
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Screenplay: Ulla Isaksson
Cinematography: Sven Nykvist
Costume design: Marik Vos-Lundh (as Marik Vos)
Sound: Evald Andersson, Staffan Dalin, Aaby Wedin
Editing: Oscar Rosander
Original Music: Erik Nordgren


DVD:
DVD RELEASE: January 24, 2006
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 321
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.33:1
COLOR: Black and White
AUDIO: Swedish Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 89 minutes

EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Fab + DVD Shrink
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: VIDEO_TS Folder
FILE SIZE: 7.5 GBs

Disc 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