The seventh seal

The Resource The seventh seal
Label
The seventh seal
Statement of responsibility
Svensk Filmindustri presents ; a film by Ingmar Bergman
Title variation
Ingmar Bergman's The seventh seal
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • swe
  • eng
  • eng
  • swe
  • swe
Summary
  • "After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess"--Container
  • In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused
Member of
Cataloging source
IDB
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Photography, Gunnar Fischer ; editor, Lennart Wallén ; music, Erik Nordgren ; producer, Allan Ekelund
Language note
In Swedish (with or without English subtitles), or dubbed English (without subtitles)
PerformerNote
Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max Von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Gill, Maud Hansson, Inga Landgré, Gunnel Lindblom, Bertil Anderberg, Anders Ek, Åke Fridell, Gunnar Olsson, Erik Strandmark
Runtime
96
Series statement
  • Criterion collection
  • Classic collection
Series volume
11
Technique
live action

Context

Context of The seventh seal

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