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Seventh Seal, The ( Det Sjunde inseglet ) (1958) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
146 |
Avg. Rating: |
3.23/4 |
# of Ratings: |
187 |
Genres: |
Fantasy, Drama |
Rating: |
PG |
Language: |
Swedish |
Theater Date: | 10/13/1958 |
DVD Release: |
06/16/2009 |
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Director: |
Ingmar Bergman |
Actors: |
Max von Sydow
Gunnar Bjornstrand
Inga Landgre
Bengt Ekerot
Nils Poppe
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Plot Outline:
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During the black plague a man is introduced to the Grim Reaper where he questions the existence of God and life in general.
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mitchellyoung 09/12/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
3/4 |
An iconic Bergman work that thrives on symbolism. It is occasionally slow-moving, but the layers of meaning are rich and the entire effect of the film is haunting. |
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SIngli6 03/30/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
4/4 |
A work of empyreal melancholia (something of an oxy-moron, I know) and inoffensive jocularity, 'The Seventh Seal' is Bergman's, if not Sweden's, greatest film! |
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TheManWithNoName 10/01/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
Rating of
4/4 |
I watched this for the first time last night and was totally blown away. I wish Bergman would've featured Death more. The scenes with him in it were the best in the movie. Revealing look into the human mind. Great film, everyone should watch it at least once. |
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12/18/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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"The Seventh Seal" by Yojimbo |
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A knight freshly returned from the crusades challenges Death to a game of chess with the life of he and his entourage as the stakes, hoping to buy time to discover the meaning behind life and what follows. The reputation of a film like The Seventh Seal most certainly precedes it; consistently voted as one of the greatest films ever made, it was far from what I expected. It is a modern day Memento Mori and the collection of disparate medieval characters offering their own perspectives on life coloured with broad strokes of bawdy humour reminded me a lot of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and each obviously represents a different perspective on life and death and how we approach them. Rather than a story driven narrative, the film is more a deeply personal window onto Bergman's own angst and... |
Rating of
3/4 |
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01/28/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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The Seventh Seal review |
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It opens with a scene: “And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour... And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.” - The Bible, Revelation 8:1 and 8:6. A dangerous plague spreads across. Knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) plays chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot). Blocks squire Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand) saves a servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom). They encounter the following actors, Jof and his wife Mia, with their baby son, Mikael. Karin reunites with Antonius. Skat and Lisa joins the group.
The strengths of this film include the direction and insightful screenplay. Quotes from the picture: Block – “I don’t regret anything.” “As long as I resist you, I live. If I win, you set me free.” ... |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
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08/06/2007 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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The Seventh Seal Revealed |
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The best movie ever made. Perfect acting, perfect cinematography. Perfect script, directing and length. Deals with human race issues. If you love cinema, you can't not watch it.
Review I made when I saw it:
The 7S is sublime. I fell in love with Bergman's aesthetic since Smultronstallet. But this one is not only visually perfect. It has the best original script I've ever seen.
This knight, representing what is nothing but the very human kind itself, gives us such a deep vision of his own sins. This is the ultimate redemption movie. The knight... confronting the most terrible and hard fight against the most powerful enemy that we ever had- the death. So, how face it? How much of our life do we spend thinking about it? Is somebody out there who really cares that? Is someone waiting f... |
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4/4 |
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