Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Seventh Seal

a very dark tale of a knight back from the crusades with his squire which death finds and tries to take. But the knight and death play in a long battle of chess to see if knight wins.The story also focuses on a family that is actors with there small little boy who performs in the town the knight and squire are in at the time. The knight goes to a church to try to find his faith in god instead gives his chess strategy away to death. The knight and the acting family which lost there other actor in there show when he runs away with a local woman who death takes first by cutting down his tree. the knight likes the family and the child but part of the knights plan is to divert death to him and the group to let the family escape. the movie is very dramatic and very deep in feeling and brash thoughts about the black plaque as it makes its way through Europe as it took a lot of peoples beliefs with it i think and faith. The Jesus on the cross has a strong expression of fear on the face. the dialogue when talking about death or the plaque is very dramatic and powerful. it could very well be how the people feared it back in the day of the plaque. The knight was a very powerful person where you seen his faith go up and down specially at the end when prays to the lord before death has them do the death dance. The story is a good way to show how peoples faith wain during time of crisis but yet can come back when they make it through. The movie was well lighted and looked like it was edited quite a bit not many long shots in the movie. The huts in the village did not look like models looked like they were actually built.
Director Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman (screenplay and play)
Release Date: Oct 13th 1958 USA
Genre: Drama Fantasy
Cannes Film Festival
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1957 Won Jury Special Prize
Ingmar Bergman
Tied with Kanal (1957).
Nominated Golden Palm
Ingmar Bergman

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1962 Won CEC Award Best Foreign Director (Mejor Director Extranjero)
Ingmar Bergman

Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)
Sweden.
Fotogramas de Plata
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1962 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Foreign Performer (Mejor intérprete de cine extranjero)
Max von Sydow

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1961 Won Silver Ribbon Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
Ingmar Bergman

Sant Jordi Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1962 Won Sant Jordi Best Film of the Year (Mejor Película del Año)
Ingmar Bergman

Best Foreign Director (Mejor Director Extranjero)
Ingmar Bergman

Gunnar Björnstrand ... Jöns, squire
Bengt Ekerot ... Death
Nils Poppe ... Jof / Joseph

Max von Sydow ... Antonius Block
Bibi Andersson ... Mia / Mary - Jof's wife
Inga Gill ... Lisa, blacksmith's wife
Maud Hansson ... Witch
Inga Landgré ... Karin, Block's Wife
Gunnel Lindblom ... Girl
Bertil Anderberg ... Raval
Anders Ek ... The Monk
Åke Fridell ... Blacksmith Plog
Gunnar Olsson ... Albertus Pictor, Church Painter
Erik Strandmark ... Jonas Skat

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