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The Seventh Seal
1957 -
Sweden
- 96 min. -
Feature, B&W
Director:
Ingmar Bergman
Cast:
Max von Sydow,
Gunnar
Björnstrand,
Bengt Ekerot,
Nils Poppe,
Inga Gill,
Bibi Andersson
More Information:
All Movie Guide
Características del DVD
- Lang.: Japanese
/ Sub. in English.
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Sinopsis
(All Music Guide)
Endlessly imitated and parodied,
Ingmar Bergman's
landmark art movie
The Seventh Seal
(Det Sjunde
Inseglet) retains its ability to hold an audience spellbound.
Bergman
regular Max Von
Sydow stars as a 14th-century knight, wearily heading home after ten
years' worth of combat. Disillusioned by unending war, plague, and misery
Von Sydow
has concluded that God does not exist. As he trudges across the wilderness,
Von Sydow is
visited by Death (Bengt
Ekrot), garbed in the traditional black robe. Unwilling to give up the
ghost, Von Sydow
challenges Death to a game of chess. If he wins, he lives—if not, he'll allow
Death to claim him. As they play, the knight and the Grim Reaper get into a
spirited discussion over whether or not God exists. To recount all that
happens next would diminish the impact of the film itself; we can observe that
The Seventh Seal
ends with one of the most indelible of all of
Bergman's
cinematic images: the near-silhouette Dance of Death. Considered by some as
the apotheosis of all
Ingmar Bergman
films (other likely candidates for that honor include
Wild
Strawberries and
Persona),
and certainly one of the most influential European art movies,
The Seventh Seal
won a multitude of awards, including the Cannes Film Festival prize.
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