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The Seventh Seal (1957) was a Foreign Films Film directed by Ingmar Bergman and produced by Allan Ekelund.

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The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 7, 2016 From The Stop Button

The Seventh Seal has a lot of striking imagery. Gunnar Fischer?s cinematography is peerless, but it?s more?it?s how the photography works with the shot composition, how the shots work with one another (Lennart Wall?n?s editing is simultaneously amiable and stunning). And then there?s how it all work... Read full article


The Seventh Seal (1957)

By Beatrice on Apr 20, 2014 From Flickers in Time

The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) Directed by Ingmar Bergman Written by Ingmar Bergman 1957/Sweden Svensk Filmindustri (SF) Repeat viewing/Criterion Collection DVD #332 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I always host a little classic film festival when my brother comes to visit and t... Read full article


Top 250 Tuesday #097 – The Seventh Seal (1957)

By Michael on Mar 4, 2014 From Durnmoose Movie Musings

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #085 on the list, Ingmar Bergman‘s The Seventh Seal. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up on what I̵... Read full article


Top 250 Tuesday #097 – The Seventh Seal (1957)

By Michael on Mar 4, 2014 From Durnmoose Movie Musings

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #085 on the list, Ingmar Bergman‘s The Seventh Seal. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up on what I̵... Read full article


The Seventh Seal (1957)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Apr 12, 2013 From 4 Star Films

Starring Max Von Sydow and directed by Ingmar Bergman, this Swedish film revolves around a knight who returns from the Crusades with his squire. He begins a chess match with Death which parallels his travels across a land infested with the Black Death. Along the way he is joined by a pair of married... Read full article


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Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.


Antonius Block: Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one's senses? Why does he hide in a cloud of half-promises and unseen miracles? How can we believe in the faithful when we lack faith? What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not? What about those who neither want to nor can believe? Why can't I kill God in me? Why does He live on in me in a humiliating way - despite my wanting to evict Him from my heart? Why is He, despite all, a mocking reality I can't be rid of?


Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.
Death: But He remains silent.
Antonius Block: I call out to Him in the darkness. But it's as if no one was there.
Death: Perhaps there isn't anyone.
Antonius Block: Then life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.
Death: Most people think neither of death nor nothingness.
Antonius Block: But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness.
Death: That day.
Antonius Block: I understand what you mean.


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Facts about

The last-but-one scene in which Death is dancing away with his followers was shot when some of the actors had gone home for the day, using some technicians and a few tourists as stand-ins.
The church which Jöns and Antonius Block arrives at 15 minutes into the film is actually a model hung in the dead tree in the foreground.
The title is a Biblical quotation from The Revelation of St. John the Divine, chapter 8.
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