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
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1957	Won	Jury Special Prize	Ingmar Bergman Tied with Kanal (1957).
	Nominated	Golden Palm	Ingmar Bergman
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1962	Won	CEC Award	Best Foreign Director (Mejor Director Extranjero) Ingmar Bergman
			Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) Sweden.
Fotogramas de Plata
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1962	Won	Fotogramas de Plata	Best Foreign Performer (Mejor intérprete de cine extranjero) Max von Sydow
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1961	Won	Silver Ribbon	Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero) Ingmar Bergman
Sant Jordi Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/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