The Seventh Seal, 1957 (Det sjunde inseglet) - Sorry lady comrades, but this is so funny

Max von Sydow as Antonius Block, knight
Gunnar Björnstrand as Jöns, squire
Bengt Ekerot as Death
Nils Poppe as Jof
Bibi Andersson as Mia, Jof's wife
Åke Fridell as Blacksmith Plog
Inga Gill as Lisa, blacksmith's wife
Erik Strandmark as Jonas Skat　(Lisa's lover）


The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, about the journey of a medieval knight across a plague-ridden landscape, and a monumental game of chess between himself and the personification of Death, who has come to take his life. Bergman developed the film from his own play Wood Painting. The title refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation, used both at the very start of the film, and again towards the end, beginning with the words "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1). Here the motif of silence is used to refer to the modern concept of the "silence of God".

Bergman had been given the go-ahead for the project from Carl-Anders Dymling at Svensk Filmindustri only after the success at Cannes of Smiles of a Summer Night, and was given a schedule of only thirty-five days, a short time for a film of this nature.

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[xaxie1]

What I loved about this film was how the supporting characters were never undermind by the main character The Knight, esspecially the Squire Jons, he is magnificent :)

[SophyaAgain]

@xaxie1

I agree. Squire Jons is my favorite character !!

[DoctorMontalban]

My favorite character (squire, indeed), in my favorite scene, in my favorite movie. Thank you, sir.

[SophyaAgain]

@DoctorMontalban

We have something in common. It's one of my favorite movie. Favorite character (Gunnar Björnstrand, the squire) and favorite scene. Just in time: I'm not a man teasing the fragile sex.

Greeting from MISS Sophya living in Okinawa ... ;-)

[DoctorMontalban]

@SophyaAgain Haha. Sorry for making the assumption you were a man. That's so typically male of me to make a bad assumption like that. Shame on me :( Thank you, Miss!