The Seventh Seal (Criterion Collection) (1957) On DVD

Actor :          Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson
Director:      Ingmar Bergman, Marie Nyreröd
Genre:          Drama
Year:            1957
Studio:         Criterion
Length:        97
Released:    June 16, 2009
Rating:          Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:         Dvd
Misc:             Black & White
Language:   Swedish
Subtitles:     English

DESCRIPTION:

Few films have had as large a cultural impact as Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet). 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 stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.