The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957)

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Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

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Gunnar Björnstrand
Jöns, squire

Bengt Ekerot
Death

Nils Poppe
Jof / Joseph

Max von Sydow
Antonius Block

Bibi Andersson
Mia / Mary - Jof's wife

Inga Gill
Lisa, Blacksmith's Wife

Maud Hansson
Witch

Inga Landgré
Karin, Block's Wife

Written by

Ingmar Bergman
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Check Mate!

16 years, 3 months ago at Aug 23 1:38

Lexi

5 votes

''I met Death today. We are playing chess.''

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

Max von Sydow: Antonius Block

The Seventh Seal is dark, beautiful, meaningful, and indeed explores the most serious themes regarding faith and search for the Divine; Known by man... read more

Unique masterpiece.

16 years, 7 months ago at May 1 8:34

PvtCaboose91

4 votes

"I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lyre. I shall try to remember our talk. I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency."

Ingmar Bergman put his country on the c... read more

A complete work about death

15 years, 1 month ago at Oct 20 11:25

VierasTalo

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Few have been the times when someone says "I love you" on screen and those words resonate to the audience with the same tenacity they resonate to who they're said to in the story. Bergman's The Seventh Seal accomplishes this within it's first 15 minutes. This alone is an accomplishment worthy of applauding. The rest of the movie is such as well. Seal deals with death as a theme as extensively as C... read more

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After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess in Ingmar Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s apocalyptic search for meaning.

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