Trivia: Max von Sydow plays Birgitta Pettersson's father in this film. In real life, von Sydow (born 1929) is only ten years older than Pettersson (born 1939).
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Pettersson, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Töre: You see it, God. You see it. The innocent child's death, and my revenge. You allowed it. I don't understand You. I don't understand You. but I still ask your forgiveness. I know no other way to live. I promise You, God... here on the dead body of my only child, I promise you that, to cleanse my sins, here I shall build a church. On this spot. Of mortar and stone... and with these, my hands.
Töre: Heavenly Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with Your host of angels, deliver us today from the devil's chokehold. God, grant that neither temptation, shame, nor danger befall thy servants this day. Amen.
Töre: Bring me the slaughtering-knife.
