The Seventh Seal (1957)
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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 s... (www.criterion.com/films/173)
 

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Awards
The Seventh Seal (1957) was nominated for the following awards:

Cannes Film Festival

1.
Jury Special Prize
1957
Won  
2.
Golden Palm
1957
Nominated  

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists

3.
Silver Ribbon
1961
Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
Won  

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain

4.
CEC Award
1962
Best Foreign Director (Mejor Director Extranjero)
Won  

Fotogramas de Plata

5.
Fotogramas de Plata
1962
Best Foreign Performer (Mejor intérprete de cine extranjero)
Won  
 

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  • The last-but-one scene in which Death is dancing away with his followers was shot when some of the actors had gone home for the day, using some technicians and a few tourists as stand-ins.
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  • The title is a Biblical quotation from The Revelation of St. John the Divine, chapter 8.
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  • The church which Jöns and Antonius Block arrives at 15 minutes into the film is actually a model hung in the dead tree in the foreground.
    (imdb.com)
  • Ingmar Bergman based the entire iconography of the movie on murals in a church where his clergyman father used to go and preach.
    (imdb.com)
  • The name of the character played by Gunnel Lindblom is never given and she speaks no lines in the film until the penultimate scene where she has the final line of the group being taken by Death: "It is finished."
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  • Of the 50+ films he has done, this is one of Ingmar Bergman`s own rare favorites.
    (imdb.com)
  • The procession of flagellants chant the Dies Irae, a famous thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Thomas of Celano. Before stopping in the village they chant stanzas 1-4 and the Lacrimosa, stanza 18. These are repeated as the procession departs.
    (imdb.com)
  • The inspiration for this film was said to be drawn from the period films of Akira Kurosawa, of which Ingmar Bergman was a big fan.
    (imdb.com)
  • Both Van Halen and Scott Walker (from his album Scott 4) have named a song after this film, both are inspired by the Bergman film. The Van Halen one also mentions The Virgin Spring.
    (imdb.com)
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