The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical
fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in Sweden during the
Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and
a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot), 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". Here, the motif of silence refers to
the "silence of God", which is a major theme of the film.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal
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