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KINO presents: My Name Is Vengeance

The Virgin Spring (1960)

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“You see it, God, you see it. The innocent child’s death and my revenge. You allowed it. I don’t understand you. Yet now I beg your forgiveness. I know no other way to be reconciled with my own hands. I know no other way to live.” Swedish grandmaster Ingmar Bergman’s classic revenge tale is the quintessential starting point for this retrospective. Often imitated – most notably Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left – but never bested, Bergman’s dark medieval set story of a father’s vengeance on three thugs who rape and murder his daughter, utilises these traumatic events to question faith, fate and the implications of administering (righteous) retribution. Swedish language with English subtitles.

Credits

Regie
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Genre
drama, history
Speelduur
90 minutes
Land
Sweden
Taal
Swedish
Ondertiteling
English

Storyline

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.

Other films in this program:

Blue Ruin (2013)
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Blue Ruin (2013)

When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
  • Geweld
I Saw The Devil (2010)
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I Saw The Devil (2010)

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
  • Geweld
Man on Fire (2004)
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Man on Fire (2004)

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she’s kidnapped he’s consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
  • Geweld
  • Groftaalgebruik
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
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Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)

A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
The Crow (1994)
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The Crow (1994)

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
  • Eng
  • Geweld
  • Groftaalgebruik
Cape Fear (1991)
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Cape Fear (1991)

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
  • Eng
  • Geweld
  • Groftaalgebruik
Mermaid Legend (1984)
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Mermaid Legend (1984)

A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.

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The Woman of Wrath (1984)
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The Woman of Wrath (1984)

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and tradition in Taiwan during circa 1920 to 1945.

  • Kijkwijzer 16
  • Eng
  • Geweld
  • Groftaalgebruik
Rolling Thunder (1977)
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Rolling Thunder (1977)

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

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