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Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

Det sjunde inseglet

Ingmar Bergman


  • Country: Sweden
  • Year: 1956
  • Language: Swedish/Latin
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  • Runtime: 96 min.

Ingmar Bergman's medieval allegory tells the tale of a fourteenth-century knight (Max von Sydow) who returns home from the Crusades to a country ravaged by plague, witch hunts and frenzied self-flagellation.

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screening times

    • Thursday October 21
    • 9:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3
    • Saturday November 13
    • 4:15:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

official description

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Ingmar Bergman's medieval allegory tells the tale of a fourteenth-century knight (Max von Sydow) who returns home from the Crusades to a country ravaged by plague, witch hunts and frenzied self-flagellation. When Death himself (Bengt Ekerot) comes to claim him, the knight challenges him to a game of chess, hoping to gain enough time to overcome his spiritual doubt before he perishes. With a visual palette derived from medieval paintings, Shakespearean interpolations of low comedy and some of the cinema's most memorable images (including the famous "Dance of Death" across a chalk-grey horizon), The Seventh Seal displays Bergman's wrestling with his perpetual theme of God's silence at its most nakedly symbolic.

Thanks to Sarah Finklea and Fumiko Takagi, Janus Films; Jon Wengström, Swedish Film Institute.

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