THE SEVENTH SEAL
synopsis
A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game 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.
international title: | The Seventh Seal |
original title: | Det sjunde inseglet |
country: | Sweden |
year: | 1957 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ingmar Bergman |
film run: | 96' |
release date: | SE 16/02/1957, FR 15/05/1957, DE 24/08/1957, UK 08/1957, FI 26/09/1958, BE 24/10/1958, PL 1959, GR 02/01/1960, IT 13/01/1960, DK 29/01/1960, ES 20/03/1961, PT 23/10/1963, DD 10/08/1971, TR 29/09/1978, CZ 01/05/2004, UA 28/10/2018 |
screenplay: | Ingmar Bergman |
cast: | Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot |
cinematography by: | Gunnar Fischer |
film editing: | Lennart Wallén |
art director: | P.A. Lundgren |
costumes designer: | Manne Lindholm |
producer: | Allan Ekelund |