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The Seventh Seal
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.
6 August 1927, Stockholm, Sweden
13 February 1913, Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
January 17, 1935 in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden
11 November 1935, Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
September 27, 1893 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
23 June 1919, Gävle, Gävleborgs län, Sweden
April 6, 1910 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
December 26, 1888 in Stockholm, Sweden
5 December 1937, Stockholm, Sweden
7 April 1916, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
November 19, 1886 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
8 February 1920, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
August 11, 1922 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
18 December 1931, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
February 3, 1922 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
July 20, 1924 in Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden
10 July 1904, Oxelösund, Södermanlands län, Sweden
December 21, 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden
14 September 1919, Torsaker, Sweden
2 May 1925, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
August 01, 2013
The movie is an unbending breakdown of the human soul, and perhaps one of the finest - and most confrontational - ever made.
June 16, 2011
Ingmar Bergman's provocative existential drama was the first to garner him great international attention.
February 09, 2006
Not only highly impressive but thought-provoking, relevant and intensely moving in our present, nervous, times.
September 13, 2010
The Seventh Seal is a film not about the end of time, but the silence between man and God.
May 03, 2015
Bergman's most iconic expression of existential yoke
December 15, 2010
Symbolism-filled classic a tough sell for kids.
March 26, 2009
Film has superior technical narrative, impressive lensing and thesping.
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.
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.
December 07, 2007
Its view of a seemingly godless landscape in the grip of plague is still bold and frightening.
July 23, 2013
Bergman's visually striking medieval morality play [was] the work that gained him an international reputation.
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.

