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The Seventh Seal

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Film Description

Bergman's allegory of Man's search for meaning in which a knight, after returning home from the Crusades, plays a game of chess with Death while the plague ravages medieval Europe. Containing some of the most iconic images ever filmed, this is the epitome of 1950s European art cinema.

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Director	Ingmar Bergman
Starring	Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Nils Poppe
Genre	World Cinema
Country	Sweden	Language	Swedish	Year	1957

DVD Extras

Silver foiled digipak packaging; Newly remastered from the restored camera negative; Short film by Bergman: Karin's Face (1984) - A rare 14 minute film, that is Bergman's tribute to his mother, made up entirely of photographs from his personal family album; On-set footage with commentary from film historian Ian Christie; Optional English-dubbed soundtrack; New improved subtitles; Theatrical trailer.

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Certificate	PG	Length	92 mins	Label	TARTN
Cat No	TVD3787	Format	DVD	Black & White
Region	2	Aspect	1.33:1
Subtitles	English .

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Review by MovieMail on 5th November 2007

The Seventh Seal is Bergman’s legendary film of a medieval knight’s game of chess with Death on his return from the Crusades, and addresses its audience with questions of what values humanity can live by in a time of apocalyptic threat.
From the early entrance of white faced Death, through to Jof’s vision of the silhouetted dance of death on the horizon, it is shot through with
iconic images and really is one of the ‘must-see’ titles of world cinema.
And now it looks even better. This 50th anniversary special edition, available on both DVD and Blu-Ray, has been newly remastered from the restored camera negative for High Definition, and also has rare behind-the scenes clips of location shooting,as well as on-set rehearsals with Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson.
Also included on the disc is the short film Karin’s Face, Bergman’s touch-
ing tribute to his mother.

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Review by Clinton Morgan on 21st March 2000

Hard to believe but this film contains some genuinely funny stuff. One scene in the latter half of the film is similar to the "Tauting Frenchman" from Monty Python and The Holy Grail. Not the depress-fest as certain periodical critics would have you believe. A good introduction to world cinema.

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Article - "Ingmar Bergman" by David Parkinson
Wednesday 1st January 2003

Born in Uppsala in 1918, the son of a stern Lutheran pastor, Ingmar Bergman first entered films in 1943. His earliest directorial efforts were compassionate studies of the social and romantic problems facing the young, which bore the influence of silent Expressionism... View article in full

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Sight and Sound Critics Choice 2002

Including: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Andrei Rublev, Au Hasard Balthazar, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless (Godard, 1959), Charlie Chaplin - City Lights, Fanny and Alexander, Fellinis 8 1/2, Intolerance, Ivan The Terrible (Parts 1 & 2).

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Bibi Andersson by BibiAnderssonFan

A list of some of the great films starring my favourite actress. The luminous Bibi Andersson started her film career with Ingmar Bergman with a small part in 'Smiles Of A Summer Night' but quickly came to prominence in his films with parts written about/for her. Bibi has commented upon reading scripts by Bergman trying to workout what side of her personality he was using and his use of her personality in his work, and the knowledge he had of her as a person being the inspiration he used for her roles, and he has spoken of her being such an integrated a person that it was impossible for her to play something she didn't believe in, resulting in the roles being created about her. Their partnership on and off the screen provided both of them with the greatest work of their careers such as 'The Seventh Seal,' 'Wild Strawberries,' 'The magician,' 'Brink Of Life,' 'A Passion,' and 'Persona.' During their thirteen films together Bibi's parts gradually became more troubled beginning with her portrayal of a young mother to be who wishes the death of her unborn child and continuing with the harrowing, desperately sad Eva in 'A Passion.' Other directors used the image of the fair skinned, fair haired, blue eyed, pretty, innocent girl of her early roles for Bergman to more challenging results such as Vilgot Sjoman with 'The Mistress' playing the title role and as a sister who has an incestuous relationship with her brother in 'My Sister My Love', but it would be Bergman who shattered this image with her complete break down in 'Persona.' Giving a particular impressive performance as a nurse who talks throughout the film but is never answered by her silent patient, leading to highly charged personal revelations as her insecurity and instability grow driving her to question herself and her patient to unnerving confrontations until the point of the patients persona merging with hers. With this collaboration Bibi and Bergman achieve a true masterpiece of cinema, owing much to her outstanding performance. Her portrayal of psychological characters in these later Bergman films established the tone of her work with other directors like Robert Altman with 'Quintet', raped by Indians, abandoned by her husband and searching for her kidnapped child in Ralph Nelsons 'Duel At Diablo', the abused Erika who uses sex and drugs to forget her past in John Houston's 'The Kremlin Letter', and as the bored housewife who may (may have imagined) rape, may (may have imagined) being held prisoner in her home in Jacques Doniol-Valcrozes's complex, dreamlike 'Le Viol'. These roles result in Bibi Andersson being one of the most tormented women in film. Not all the films Andersson lends her vast talents to are the masterpieces she made with Bergman, but it is assured her acting is always interesting and worthwhile watching.

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