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The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet) (Criterion Collection)

Criterion/Voyager (1957)

Drama | Fantasy | Foreign

Sweden | Swedish | Black & White | 01:36

#166

8.1

198,818

Criterion Collection

LaserDisk

1 disc

Ingmar Bergmann’s masterpiece film about confronting death. Death comes to a knight upon his arrival from battle and attempts to take him away. The knight challenges Death to a chess match as the people around them are haunted by the plague. The Seventh Seal comes from a riddle about crusaders who arrive home after a few years to find their people affected by the plague.

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	Gunnar Bjornstrand	Jöns / squire
	Bengt Ekerot	Death
	Nils Poppe	Jof
	Max Von Sydow	Antonius Block
	Bibi Andersson	Mia
	Inga Gill	Lisa / Blacksmith's Wife
	Maud Hansson	Witch
	Inga Landgré	Karin / Block's Wife
	Gunnel Lindblom	Girl
	Bertil Anderberg	Raval
	Anders Ek	The Monk
	Ake Fridell	Blacksmith Plog
	Gunnar Olsson	Albertus Pictor / Church Painter
	Erik Strandmark	Jonas Skat
	Siv Aleros	Flagellant
	Sten Ardenstam	Knight
	Harry Asklund	The Landlord
	Benkt-Åke Benktsson	Merchant at the Inn
	Catherine Berg	Young Woman Kneeling for the Flagellants
	Lena Bergman	Young Woman Kneeling for the Flagellants
	Tor Borong	Farmer at the Inn
	Gudrun Brost	Woman at Inn
	Bengt Gillberg	Flagellant
	Lars Granberg	Flagellant
	Gunlög Hagberg	Flagellant