In particular, a group of travelling players and a husband, Jof (Nils Poppe), his wife Mia (Bibi Andersson) and their small child, Mikael.
Block's condition is that if he wins the game, he should be allowed to live.įrom this simple, if dramatic, beginning, the film expands to encompass more characters. Is it not known from the folk songs and paintings that Death is a keen player of the game? So the two sit down to play. He decides to distract Death with the offer of a game of chess. "You all say that", Death replies wryly, and no doubt truthfully.īut Block has an idea. The figure reveals himself to be Death, come to claim him at last.Īs Death prepares to take him, Block attempts to forestall him.
Resting on a beach, Block sees a tall mysterious, pale skinned figure (played by Bengt Ekerot), clad in a black cloak. Death, decay, fear, suspicion and despair haunt the landscape.ĭeath in fact is literally present, in human form. But the land they are returning to is one ravaged by a plague, the Black Death. Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) is a knight, returning from the Crusades with his squire Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand). The film is set in Sweden in the Medieval era. It's the film that made Bergman a star of the European art house and began his most celebrated period as a film director. The Seventh Seal, known in Swedish as Det Sjunde inseglet, is probably the most famous of Ingmar Bergman's films, and therefore probably the most famous film in Swedish cinema history.
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