The Seventh Seal (1957)

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Written by Ingmar Bergman

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Running Time: 105 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1957

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: Sweden

Filmed in Black and White

On the first anniversary of Ingmar Bergman's death, Film 4 presents a short season of the maestro's films. The season opens with one of Bergman's masterpieces - The Seventh Seal, released in 1957. One of cinema's seminal movies, it passes the test of time, and is so revered, that it's been lovingly parodied.

A knight and his squire (Max Von Sydow and Gunnar Björnstrand), returning home from the Crusades through a plague-ridden land, meet Death (Bengt Ekerot) who engages the knight in a chess game as the pair debate the mysteries of life, faith and death itself.

Cast

Gunnar BjörnstrandJöns
Bengt EkerotDeath
Nils PoppeJof
Max von SydowAntonius Block
Bibi AnderssonMia
Inga GillLisa
Maud HanssonWitch
Inga LandgréKarin
Gunnel LindblomGirl
Bertil AnderbergRaval
Anders EkThe Monk
Åke FridellBlacksmith Plog
Gunnar OlssonAlbertus Pictor
Erik StrandmarkJonas Skat

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