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Review

Based on a Swedish ballad, Bergman's quietly chilling morality play brilliantly captures the quality of ancient legends -- their primitive passion, human sorrow, and abrupt beauty. Set in the Swedish countryside of the 14th century, it stars von Sydow as the tormented father whose daughter was raped and murdered after her sister invokes a pagan curse. In the spot of her death a magical spring bursts forth.