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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1963
Bergman Lecture To Precede Film
Per-Olof Mascher, Swedish visiting assistant professor of German, will speak on "Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish Artist" at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
The lecture will precede the showing of Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Hoch Auditorium.
Following the showing, an open discussion will be led by Mascher and Thomas R. Buckman, University libraries director, in the Music and Browsing Room of the Kansas Union.
"In Ingmar Bergman's films we meet a many-sided artist, whose work ranges from gay comedy to the most dismal tragedy," Mascher said.
"Some of his plot problems include: man's hopeless, irremediable loneliness, his constant wrestling with the problems of good and evil. God and the devil, and his perpetual struggle to find a meaning in this cruel, brutal world of ours," he said.
"The tragic element is, however, by far the strongest, and not even his gayest comedies are free of the typical 'Ingmar Bergman' problems," Mascher said.
"Never has Ingmar Bergman depicted the meaningless cruelty of life more ruthlessly and shockingly than in 'The Virgin Spring', which is based on a ballad from the 14th century, . . ." Mascher says.
A young girl riding to church is raped and murdered in the forest by herdsmen who try to sell her dress at the nearest house, which happens to be her home. Recognizing his daughter's dress, the farmer kills the herdsman. When he realizes what he has done, he promises God to build a church on the spot where his daughter was killed. When he lifts his daughter from the ground, a spring flows from the place where she lay in the forest.
Mascher will distribute synopses of the film at the Friday night showing.
He warns about the film, "There is nothing sensational: it's disgusting, and it's nauseating because Bergman is demonstrating brutality for a special reason."
Mascher says there are things other than brutality in the film, and comments that the end can be seen as a way out of this vicious circle of brutality.
Buckman says, "The Virgin Spring' is a rather unusual film, in some ways a rather cruel and brutal film, but nevertheless a very good film.
"Although the film seems rather shocking, viewed in its entirety, it is well-balanced," he said.
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Masher has been visiting from Sweden since September and will return in July.
Masher said he thinks he and Buckman have rather different opinions about the film.
Mascher has studied Ingmar Bergman and has lectured about him in Sweden.
The "Silent Spring" cast includes Max von Sydw, Brigitta Valberg, Brigitta Petterson, and Gunnel Lindblom.
The Swedish-language film will have English subtitles.
The script of "The Virgin Spring," in an English translation, will be available in the Kansas Union Book Store in about ten days.
Pub Owner Repays Patrons
BRIDGEWATER, England—(UPI)
—Because his patrons were faithful during the bitter winter months, Ken Richards, pub owner, will hold a half-price "spring sale" of wines and liquors for one week.
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A selected number of women students gather in homes of various faculty members for an informal social hour. Betty Dwyer, Wichita
AWS Coffee Project Acquaints KU Groups
The Associated Women Students (AWS) Student-Faculty Relations Committee is preparing for its second, student-faculty coffee project.
junior and committee chairman, said.
The purpose of the project is to create closer student-faculty relationships, she explained. Miss Dwyer urged all interested faculty members to leave their names with the Dean of Women's Office.
Castro Plans Radio Speech
MIAMI — (UPI) — Premier Fidel Castro plans to make two speeches this weekend, Radio Havana reported today.
The broadcast said Castro will address a political convention Friday and a medical convention Sunday. Both speeches will be carried by the official radio-television chain.
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