22 Sep 2024
Periwinkle
A waitress learns about a chance to become a general manager at the diner she works at, and has to decide if she wants to compromise her morals or find comfort within an unlikely group of women who are hiding from the law.
The Virgin Spring
Ravished innocence... brings terrible revenge!
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
Top Billed Cast
Max von Sydow Töre
Birgitta Valberg Märeta
Gunnel Lindblom Ingeri
Birgitta Pettersson Karin
Axel Düberg Thin Herdsman
Allan Edwall Beggar
Tor Isedal Mute Herdsman
Ove Porath Boy
Axel Slangus Bridge Keeper
Gudrun Brost Frida
Oscar Ljung Simon
Tor Borong Farm-hand
Leif Forstenberg Farm-hand
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