The Essentials: The 15 Greatest Ingmar Bergman Films

Edit Indiewire 02 Apr 2015
The unusually linear and comprehensible story, especially if you compare it to the thicket of interpretations thrown up by films like 'Seventh Seal’ or 'The Silence,' is based on an old Swedish ballad, and tells of the rape and murder of Karin (Birgitta Peterson), beloved daughter of local landowner Tore (Max von Sydow) and his wife Mareta (Birgitta Valberg) which is witnessed by her surly, pregnant servant Ingeri (Gunnel Lindblom) ... ....
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