The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
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Actor: Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Bj?rnstrand, Max von Sydow, Nils PoppeDirector: Ingmar Bergman
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: Swedish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-01-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Death? A Reason to Believe? 14th Century Black Plague? Readon
Summary: 5 Stars
Simple, cutting, to the point; Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" is a movie with a message, yes, a message that tells a story about a man and his chess board. The opponent, a pale man with a simple mission greets the knight Antonius Block in the 14th century Sweden; returning home to a disease ravaged land, yes the Black Plague has eaten its way to his home. Job I mean Block meets his match in this cunning story that was put together one summer with a bunch of friends of Ingmar and his girl friend Mary, the leading lady.
--Ross
Summary of The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
A moving medieval tale of a knight searching for god in a world ravaged by plague. As the honorable knight his cynical squire a troupe of carefree actors and black-robed death a superb cast of bergman regulars portray the cruelty and charity that coexisted during this dark era. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 02/02/1999 Starring: Ingmar Bergman Max Von Sydow Run time: 96 minutes Rating: NrIngmar Bergman's 1956 film has been parodied by everyone from Woody Allen to Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, but it remains one of the strangest and richest classics of world cinema. Max Von Sydow plays a knight returning from the Crusades to encounter an apocalyptic scenario inspired by the Book of Genesis. He plays chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot), sees a manacled witch, watches a band of flagellants go by--all of it foretelling an inevitable end to life. Unabashedly allegorical and lyrical and existing in a world unto itself, the film is enormously mesmerizing no matter what one thinks of the weighty meanings Bergman has attached to it all. The DVD release has English subtitles, audio commentary by critic Peter Cowie, theatrical trailer, and Bergman's filmography. --Tom Keogh
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