The Seventh Seal
A knight returning from the Crusades to a plague-stricken Sweden plays chess with Death to buy time.
- Type
- Film
- Released
- 1957
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Length
- 96 min · One sitting
- Original title
- Det sjunde inseglet
- Critics' average
- 89/100 across 4 published scores
Genres
Drama · Existentialist fiction · Period drama · Historical · Fantasy
What it feels like
Mortality & meaning · Power, empire & religion · Contemplative · Bleak