When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague and seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God.
10 July 1904, Oxelösund, Södermanlands län, Sweden
5 December 1937, Stockholm, Sweden
31 May 1908, Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
10 April 1929, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
November 19, 1886 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
January 17, 1935 in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden
January 31, 1900 in Falun, Dalarnas län, Sweden
December 26, 1888 in Stockholm, Sweden
July 20, 1924 in Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden
13 November 1909, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
August 11, 1922 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
December 21, 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden
11 November 1935, Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
April 6, 1910 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
January 24, 1935 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
13 February 1913, Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
14 September 1919, Torsaker, Sweden
7 April 1916, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
September 27, 1893 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
18 December 1931, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
6 August 1927, Stockholm, Sweden
23 June 1919, Gävle, Gävleborgs län, Sweden
8 February 1920, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
2 May 1925, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
February 3, 1922 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
May 03, 2015
Bergman's most iconic expression of existential yokeDecember 07, 2007
Its view of a seemingly godless landscape in the grip of plague is still bold and frightening.July 30, 2007
It survives today only as an unusually pure example of a typical 50s art-film strategy: the attempt to make the most modern and most popular of art forms acceptable to the intelligentsia by forcing it into an arcane, antique mold.July 23, 2013
Bergman's visually striking medieval morality play [was] the work that gained him an international reputation.February 09, 2006
Not only highly impressive but thought-provoking, relevant and intensely moving in our present, nervous, times.June 16, 2011
Ingmar Bergman's provocative existential drama was the first to garner him great international attention.December 15, 2010
Symbolism-filled classic a tough sell for kids.January 17, 2012
90 minutes of iconic imagery, some deep questions and a surprising amount of humor. This is Art with a capital A, but that doesn't mean it's not entertaining at the same time, which only makes its artistry even greater.August 01, 2013
The movie is an unbending breakdown of the human soul, and perhaps one of the finest - and most confrontational - ever made.September 13, 2010
The Seventh Seal is a film not about the end of time, but the silence between man and God.March 26, 2009
Film has superior technical narrative, impressive lensing and thesping.May 20, 2003
Essentially intellectual, yet emotionally stimulating, too, it is as tough -- and rewarding -- a screen challenge as the moviegoer has had to face this year.