The Virgin Spring (1960)

Max von Sydow: Töre

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• Töre : 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.

• Töre : You saw it. God, You saw it. The death of an innocent child, and my vengeance. You allowed it to happen. I don't understand You. I don't understand You. Yet, I still ask your forgiveness. I know no other way to make peace with myself than with my own hands. I don't know any other way to live. I promise You, God, here, by the dead body of my only child, I promise that as penance for my sin, I shall build You a church. On this spot I shall build it. Of mortar and stone - and with these very hands.

• Töre : You are not alone, Märeta, and God alone knows shower guilt lies.

• 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.

• Märeta : You're much too conscious about duty and honor when it concerns Karin.

  Töre : You're much too soft and weak when it concerns her.

• Töre : Bring me the slaughtering-knife.

• Töre : [jokingly]  I'll ride into the mountains with this naughty girl, and I'll say, "I won't have such a daughter. Imprison her in the mountains for seven years until she's been tamed. Then I'll come and take her home again - maybe."

• Töre : Heat up the bath. I'll get some birch branches.

• Töre : Tradition says a virgin must take the candles to church.

• Töre : Tell me what you know.

  Ingeri : Kill me first.