Movie Details
Theatrical Release:October 13th, 1958
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On DVD & Blu-ray:November 20th, 2018
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Movie Budget:$150,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$311,212 (Worldwide)
Original Language:Swedish
Production Companies:SF Studios
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The Seventh Seal Quotes
Reflections on Life and Death in Film
Quotes about The Seventh Seal: [[Woody Allen]
*] in "Through a Life Darkly" a review of The Magic Lantern : An Autobiography as translated by Joan Tate (1988) in The New York Times (18 September 1988).
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Exploring Themes in The Seventh Seal
Quotes about The Seventh Seal: [[Ingmar Bergman|Bergman]
The Seventh Seal was always my favourite film, and I remember seeing it with a small audience at the old New Yorker Theatre. Who would have thought that the subject matter could yield such a pleasurable experience? If I described the story and tried to persuade a friend to watch it with me, how far would I get? Well, I'd say, it takes place in a plague-ridden medieval Sweden and explores the limits of faith and reason based on Danish — and some German — philosophical concepts. Now this is hardly anyone idea of a good time, and yet it's all dealt off with such stupendous imagination, suspense, and flair that one sits riveted like a child at a harrowing fairy tale. Suddenly the black figure of Death appears on the seashore to claim his victim, and the Knight of Reason challenges him to a chess game, trying to stall for time and discover some meaning to life. The tale engages and stalks forward with sinister inevitability. Again, the images are breathtaking! The flagellants, the burning of the witch (worthy of Carl Dreyer), and the finale, as Death dances off with all the doomed people to the nether lands in one of the most memorable shots in all movies. ] is prolific, and the films that followed these early works were rich and varied, as his obsession moved from God's silence to the tortured relations between anguished souls trying to make sense of their feelings.
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