The Seventh Seal

Knight Antonius Block returns home to Sweden from a crusade against the infidels. He finds his land ravaged by plague. Death visits Block and tells him his days are numbered. But first, one more game of chess awaits him.

An old story about the meaning of life and the search for God. Bergman's film was inspired by his own play "Painting on Wood". Director of photography Sven Nykvist's camera, the Nordic landscape in the midst of summer, and the cast - led by the charismatic Max von Sydow - rescue the film from theatrical artifice.