#Bengt Ekerot

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THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957), DIR. INGMAR BERGMAN

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The Seventh Seal (1957)

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The Seventh Seal (1957) Directed by Ingmar Bergman

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Bengt Ekerot, February 8, 1920 – November 26, 1971.

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Det Sjunde Inseglet (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman

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On August 10, 1971, The Seventh Seal debuted in East Germany.

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Bengt Ekerot as Death in Ingmar Bergman’s “The Seventh Seal” (1957)

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"Det sjunde inseglet" (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

(Eng. title: "The Seventh Seal")

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The Seventh Seal will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 18 via The Criterion Collection. Neil Kellerhouse designed the cover art for the influential 1957 Swedish historical fantasy.

Ingmar Bergman (Persona, The Virgin Spring) writes and directs. Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Landgré, and Åke Fridell star.

The Seventh Seal has been digitally restored in 4K with uncompressed monaural Swedish audio and an English dub. Special features (included on the Blu-ray disc) are listed below.

Special features:

Introduction by writer-director Ingmar Bergman (2013)

Audio commentary and video afterword by Bergman expert Peter Cowie

Bergman Island - 2006 feature-length documentary on Bergman by Marie Nyreröd

Audio interview with actor Max von Sydow (1998)

Tribute to Bergman by filmmaker Woody Allen (1989)

Bergman 101 - A selected video filmography tracing Bergman’s career, narrated by expert Peter Cowie

Trailer

Booklet with an an essay by critic Gary Giddins

Returning exhausted from the Crusades to find medieval Sweden gripped by the Plague, a knight (Max von Sydow) suddenly comes face-to-face with the hooded figure of Death, and challenges him to a game of chess. As the fateful game progresses, and the knight and his squire encounter a gallery of outcasts from a society in despair, Ingmar Bergman mounts a profound inquiry into the nature of faith and the torment of mortality. One of the most influential films of its time, The Seventh Seal is a stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning and a work of stark visual poetry.

Pre-order The Seventh Seal.

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The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman, 1957

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Translation: "I got a job to do but I'm going to play games instead"

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Bengt Ekerot as Death in The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) dir. Ingmar Bergman

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The Seventh Seal poster - Artist: Huang Hai.

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The Seventh Seal (1957)

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Bengt Ekerot, February 8, 1920 – November 26, 1971.

With Ingmar Bergman during the making of The Seventh Seal (1957).

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“Death as a subject? Is not death the non-subject par excellence? However cheerfully we may chatter about love, there is little to say about death. It leaves us speechless. Once, we are told, in the good old days, in ancient times it was different, Death was more loquacious and affable, was part of society and the family, encounters with him were not avoided, and if he was not a close friend at least he was on familiar terms with mankind. There has been a fundamental change over the last two hundred years. Death has fallen silent and commands our silence, and we are happy to comply; indeed, we preserve a deathly hush. And not because we know nothing about it - that, as everyone knows, is no reason at all to keep one's mouth shut - no, it is simply because death is the spirit of the eternal negative, a spoilsport, literally a killjoy, and we want nothing to do with such characters today.” - Patrick Süskind, ‘On Love and Death’ (2006) [p. 39, 40]