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THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)

SWEDEN 96 MINS

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Gunnar Fischer

Starring: Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot

Synopsis: 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.

As the fateful game progresses, and the knight and his squire encounter a gallery of outcasts from a society in despair, Bergman mounts a profound inquiry into the nature of faith and the torment of mortality. One of the most influential films of its time, The Seventh Seal is a stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning and a work of stark visual poetry.