THE SEVENTH SEAL

DET SJUNDE INSEGLET

By Ingmar BERGMAN

TRANSILVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Completed 1957


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2018
Cannes Classics
    • Year of production
    • 1957
    • Countries
    • SWEDEN
    • Languages
    • SWEDISH
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ingmar BERGMAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Allan EKELUND
    • Synopsis
    • A knight, Antonius Block, and his squire Jöns are back from the Crusades. The Plague reigns. Block encounters Death and challenges her to a game of chess. This game of existential passion is the humanity of its characters, who seem to avoid allegory as a sort of narrative death: Block, away from the real-the only proof of God; Jöns, cynical sensualist who articulates the void; Death herself, a picture of inconclusiveness; and the dreamer Jof and his wild-strawberry wife.