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On Monday, July 30, NewsHour commentary on the death of Ingmar Bergman included talk about his movies but neglected to mention one of his more important films: Virgin Spring. The movie is more than a story of rape, murder and a father's revenge. It is about something common in history: overreaction. The father of the murdered girl kills the two grown brothers who participated in the murder but also the third brother, a young boy, who did not. To this point the film is a distillation of a world condition.
The movie won Bergman his first academy award.
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