The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman, 1957
B&W, certificate PG, 96 mins

Saturday 18 August, 2.30pm
Sainsbury Wing Theatre

This medieval allegory of faith and doubt takes its title from the Book of Revelations in the Bible: 'And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour'.

From the dramatic first scene on a deserted beach, where a knight returning from the Crusades challenges Death to a game of chess, the film is full of Bergman's characteristically poetic imagery. On the journey home to his wife, the knight contemplates his war-ravaged faith.

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