The knight and his squire pass a caravan of actors: Jof and his wife Mia, with their infant son Mikael and actor-manager Jonas Skat. The game they start continues throughout the story.ĭeath and Antonius Block choose sides for the chess game The knight encounters Death, whom he challenges to a chess match, believing he can survive as long as the game continues. It established Bergman as a world-renowned director, containing scenes which have become iconic through homages, critical analysis, and parodies.ĭisillusioned knight Antonius Block and his cynical squire Jöns return from the Crusades to find the country ravaged by the plague. The Seventh Seal is considered a classic of world cinema, as well as one of the greatest movies of all time. Here, the motif of silence refers to the "silence of God", which is a major theme of the film. The title refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation, used both at the very start of the film, and again towards the end, beginning with the words "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour". Bergman developed the film from his own play Wood Painting. Set in Sweden during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight ( Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death ( Bengt Ekerot), who has come to take his life. The Seventh Seal ( Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
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