Ingmar Bergman	...	(Director)
	...	(Writer)
Max von Sydow	...
Birgitta Valberg	...
Gunnel Lindblom	...
Birgitta Pettersson	...
Axel Düberg	...
Dexter Holland	...	Himself
Greg K	...	Himself
Noodles	...	Himself
Atom Willard	...	Himself
The Offspring	...	Themselves
Guy Cohen	...	The White Guy (segment "Pretty Fly [For a White Guy]") / Himself (segment "Why Don't You Get a Job?")
Zooey Deschanel	...	The Girl (segment "She's Got Issues")
Redman	...	Himself (segment "Original Prankster")

Summary: Made in 1960 and set in medieval Sweden, Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" is based on a folk ballad. It also examines a society in transition from Norse pantheism to Christianity. The film starkly contrasts Ingeri--a dark, feral, Odin-worshipping foster daughter to a Christian family headed by Max Von Sydow--and their own daughter, a pretty and blond but also vain and naïve girl named Karin, whom Ingeri resents. They travel out together to a distant church where Karin is to offer votive candles to the Virgin Mary. However, en route, Karin is raped and murdered by two desperate goatherds, accompanied by a 13-year-old boy. By coincidence, the goatherds then seek refuge with Karin's parents and even try to sell them her clothes, which proves to be a mortal error.
Bergman was greatly influenced by Akira Kurosawa when he made "The Virgin Spring", as evinced in its ominous use of dark and shade and lengthy sequences without dialogue. However, this is more than pastiche. Although the Christian ending with which Bergman feels obliged to conclude the film doesn't quite sit well in a movie in which God is as palpably absent as in any Bergman movie, the slow, remorseless pace of the murder and subsequent retribution bring to mind Krzysztof Kieslowski's "A Short Film About Killing" in their sense of the futility of vengeance. "--David Stubbs"