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Herman "Erik" Nordgren (13 February 1913 – 6 March 1992) was a Swedish composer, arranger and bandleader.
The representation of Death as a white-faced man who wears a dark cape and plays chess with mortals has been a popular object of parody in other films and television. Several films and comedy sketches portray Death as playing games other than or in addition to chess.
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Oct 31, 2021 · As Erik Nordgren’s unsettling score reaches to its crescendo, the ominous narrator recites the passage from the book of revelation, and we find ourselves in the harsh, unforgiving world of Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” (1957).
Jul 23, 2015 · Perhaps the most disquieting bars of music Nordgren ever wrote are heard off- and on-screen in Here Is Your Life , during Allan Edwall’s memory of his wife’s death—at first, a delicate, high keening on the organ, and then a rustic dance tune heard on an old 78 r.p.m. disc, played out until the end to rhyme with the woman’s untimely ...
May 2, 2024 · The final scene is one of the most iconic in film history, showing hand-holding figures on a hill in their dance of death. The title of the film stems from the Book of Revelation (8:1), “And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour.” Silence is a major motif in the film.
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Summer Interlude ( Swedish: Sommarlek ), originally titled Illicit Interlude in the United States, is a 1951 Swedish drama film co-written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film opened to highly positive reviews from critics.
The film abounds with images that have become instantly recognizable emblems of world cinema—the knight Antonius Block confronting Death across a chessboard, the procession of the flagellants, or the “Dance of Death” against the louring skyline in the final moments.
