The Seventh Seal
1957 | Drama | Sweden | Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Overview
A medieval knight returns from crusade to a plague land and plays chess with Death on a beach. Bergman made existential inquiry popular cinema: the silence of God, faith doubted, one simple meal of strawberries and milk as salvation. Max von Sydow and Gunnar Bjornstrand anchor it. The arthouse hit that made foreign film a category in America.
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