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The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman,
1957,
96’
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
EN
“Most important, Bergman shows us, as medieval artists did, an allegorical, iconic reality, in Erich Auerbach's term, a figural reality which can be understood only by seeing that it prefigures something beyond itself. ‘My intention,’ Bergman writes in a note to the film, ‘has been to paint in the same way as the medieval church painter,’ and lo and behold! he has done just exactly that.”
Norman N. Holland1
- 1Norman N. Holland, “The Seventh Seal: The Film as Iconography,” The Hudson Review 12, no. 2 (1959): 266–70.
