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The Seventh Seal is considered a classic of world cinema, as well as one of the greatest films of all time. It established Bergman as a world-renowned director, containing scenes which have become iconic through homages, critical analysis, and parodies.
The Seventh Seal: Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow. A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
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- Drama, Fantasy
- Ingmar Bergman
- 1958-10-13
Apr 16, 2000 · Bergman's spiritual quest is at the center of the films he made in the middle of his career. "The Seventh Seal” opens that period, in which he asked, again and again, why God seemed absent from the world. In "Through a Glass Darkly” (1962), the mentally ill heroine has a vision of God as a spider.
May 2, 2024 · The Seventh Seal, Swedish allegorical dramatic film, released in 1957, that is widely considered director Ingmar Bergman’s greatest work and a classic in world cinema. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
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Ingmar Bergman. The Seventh Seal. Returning exhausted from the Crusades to find medieval Sweden gripped by the Plague, a knight (Max von Sydow) suddenly comes face-to-face with the hooded figure of Death, and challenges him to a game of chess.
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In The Seventh Seal Bergman spoke to this modern query in a medieval setting rendered at once awesome and intimate in chiaroscuro. A knight, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), and his squire Jöns ( Gunnar Björnstrand ) return disillusioned from the Crusades to the hysteria of plague-infested fourteenth-century Sweden.
From a wonderfully crafted screenplay, incredible acting, unique directing to a haunting - yet entertaining plot, The Seventh Seal is one of Ingmar Bergman’s best pictures and an iconic...
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