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- Starring: Max Von Sydow, Inga Gill, Bibi Andersson, Ake Fridell, Gunnar Bjornstrand
- Rating: Not Rated
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- 2 Release Date: 06/16/2009
- Label: The Criterion Collection
The Seventh Seal [1957] [Criterion] (BLU)
Ingmar Bergman
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Black & White, in Swedish with English subtitles. Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
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.
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- Starring: Max Von Sydow, Inga Gill, Bibi Andersson, Ake Fridell, Gunnar Bjornstrand
- Language: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: The Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 06/16/2009
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Catalogue #: 11
Special Features
- Introduction by Ingmar Bergman, recorded in 2003
- Audio commentary by Bergman expert Peter Cowie, with a new afterword
- Bergman Island (2006), an 83-minute documentary on Bergman by Marie Nyreröd
- Archival audio interview with Max von Sydow
- A 1989 tribute to Bergman by filmmaker Woody Allen
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins
