The Seventh Seal (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 16, 2009
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gunnar Björnstrand | |
Performer: | Max Von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Gunnel Lindblom, Bertil Anderberg, Anders Ek & Ake Fridell | |
Directed by | Ingmar Bergman | |
Edited by | Lennart Wallen | |
Composition by | Erik Nordgren | |
Art Direction by | P. A. Lundgren | |
Director of Photography: | Gunnar Fischer |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1957 -
Jury Prize: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/4 --
Its view of a seemingly godless landscape in the grip of plague is still bold and frightening.
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Detroit Free Press
...Bergman's early masterpiece about a 14th century chess game with Death...
USA Today
The Seventh Seal is an existentialist masterpiece packed with stunning symbolism and mordant humour. It's also far more accessible that you might think. Go see it. Or else.
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Little White Lies
The movie is an unbending breakdown of the human soul, and perhaps one of the finest - and most confrontational - ever made.
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Cinemaphile.org
4 stars out of 5 -- [The film] still works as a compelling dramatisation of a philosophical symposium.
Uncut
You can hunt about in the history of the cinema and bring up a distant cousin or two for Bergman's great work. Yet, when all the delving is done, this film remains something quite distinct, a wonderful film which is not quite like any other.
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Guardian
Product Description:
Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow), a knight, returns from a 10-year crusade with his squire, Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand), to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. When the black-cloaked figure of Death (Bengt Ekerot) appears to claim them, Block, whose war experiences have left him cynical about the existence of God and the afterlife, challenges Death to a game of chess to stall for time and gain some insight into the meaning of life before passing on. The game is intermittently paused and resumed during the journey home while Block and Jöns meet several traveling companions, including a mute girl (Gunnel Lindblom) whom they save from a bandit, and a family of poor traveling players--Jof, a gentle visionary (Nils Poppe); his wife, Mia (Bibi Andersson); and their infant daughter. Block witnesses much suffering and anguish along the way (an encounter with a woman accused of witchcraft who is about to be burned at the stake is especially jarring) but also finds evidence of human kindness and love, prompting him to realize that even a single gesture of goodwill might make the long struggle of his existence worthwhile. The title of Ingmar Bergman's highly acclaimed allegorical film stems from the Book of Revelation.
Product Description:
Few films have had as large a cultural impact as Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet). Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman's stunning allegory of man's search for meaning was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America's 1950s art house heyday, pushing cinema's boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.
Keywords:
Classic
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Death
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Medieval
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Recommended
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Surreal
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Theatrical Release
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Competitions
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
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