1957Great Directors: Ingmar Bergman
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Friday, February 8 – Thursday, February 14, 2013
Returning from the Crusades to a plague-ridden homeland, a wearied knight (Max von Sydrow) plays a fateful game of chess with Death incarnate in the director’s groundbreaking allegorical masterpiece. Read more about THE SEVENTH SEAL in Film Notes.
"THE SEVENTH SEAL and the other Bergman masterpieces that soon followed it—WILD STRAWBERRIES, THE MAGICIAN, and THE VIRGIN SPRING—were as important to the development of world cinema as the New Wave in France or the work of Fellini, Antonioni and Bertolucci in Italy. Bergman’s work proved that essential philosophical and human issues could be explored on film and still reach a wide audience." —Peter Cowie for the Criterion Collection
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Film Information
Directed By
Ingmar Bergman
Running Time
96 minutes
Country of Origin
Sweden
Language
Swedish with English subtitles
Release Year
1957 |