Release Date: April 18, 2023
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96
Amazon- $49.95
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson
Returning exhausted from the Crusades to find medieval Sweden gripped by the Plague, a knight (Max von Sydow) suddenly comes face-to-face with the hooded figure of Death, and challenges him to a game of chess. As the fateful game progresses, and the knight and his squire encounter a gallery of outcasts from a society in despair, Ingmar Bergman mounts a profound inquiry into the nature of faith and the torment of mortality. One of the most influential films of its time, The Seventh Sealis a stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning and a work of stark visual poetry.
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96
Amazon- $49.95
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson
- Sweden
- 1957
- 97 minutes
- Black & White
- 1.37:1
- Swedish
Returning exhausted from the Crusades to find medieval Sweden gripped by the Plague, a knight (Max von Sydow) suddenly comes face-to-face with the hooded figure of Death, and challenges him to a game of chess. As the fateful game progresses, and the knight and his squire encounter a gallery of outcasts from a society in despair, Ingmar Bergman mounts a profound inquiry into the nature of faith and the torment of mortality. One of the most influential films of its time, The Seventh Sealis a stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning and a work of stark visual poetry.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Introduction from 2003 by director Ingmar Bergman
- Audio commentary and video afterword by Bergman expert Peter Cowie
- Bergman Island (2006), a feature-length documentary on Bergman by Marie Nyreröd
- Audio interview from 1998 with actor Max von Sydow
- Tribute to Bergman from 1989 by filmmaker Woody Allen
- Bergman 101, a selected video filmography tracing Bergman’s career, narrated by Cowie
- Trailer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- PLUS: An essay by critic Gary Giddins
