The Seventh Seal [Det Sjunde Inseglet] (1957)

 

7:00 PM - 8:40 PM

Directed By Ingmar Bergman

Starring Max von Sydow and Bengt Ekerot

 

Jordan's Comment: "A bizarre and pretentious - yet deeply moving - film by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. The film's story is one of the strangest ever: a medieval knight, dying of the Plague, buys time by challenging Death himself to a game of chess. The movie also features a Swedish folk song about the Devil having a bowel movement. I couldn't possibly make this stuff up."

Trivia: The famous last scene was after all the actors had gone home, using some technicians and a few tourists instead.

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