Il settimo sigillo

Titolo originale: Det sjunde inseglet
Regia: Ingmar Bergman |
Anno: 1957
Origine: Sweden |
Generi: Fantasy Dramma
Tag: witch | dying and death | blacksmith | chess | countryside | allegory | crusade | artist | juggler | witch burning | last judgment | symbolism | sense of life | matter of life and death | grim reaper | black and white | demon | belief in god | middle ages (476-1453) | meaning of life | virgin mary | black death | playing chess | death personified | death incarnate | life teacher | metaphysical | 14th century | seeking a god | relaxed | metaphysical drama | metaphysics, mysticism, kabbalah, spiritism | the virgin mary |
Cast: Gunnar Björnstrand | Bengt Ekerot | Nils Poppe | Max von Sydow | Bibi Andersson | Inga Gill | Maud Hansson | Inga Landgré | Gunnel Lindblom | Bertil Anderberg | Anders Ek | Åke Fridell | Gunnar Olsson | Erik Strandmark | Lars Lind | Benkt-Åke Benktsson | Tor Borong | Gudrun Brost | Harry Asklund | Ulf Johansson | Sten Ardenstam | Gordon Löwenadler | Karl Widh | Tommy Karlsson | Siv Aleros | Bengt Gillberg | Lars Granberg | Gunlög Hagberg | Gun Hammargren | Uno Larsson | Lennart Lilja | Monica Lindman | Helge Sjökvist | Georg Skarstedt | Ragnar Sörman | Lennart Tollén | Caya Wickström | Catherine Berg | Mona Malm | Tor Isedal | Josef Norman | Gösta Prüzelius | Fritjof Tall | Nils Whiten | Lena Bergman |

Film capolavoro di Ingmar Bergmann sul confronto con la morte. La morte appare ad un cavaliere al suo ritorno dalla battaglia e cerca di portarlo via. Il cavaliere sfida la morte ad una partita a scacchi.

Frasi

Antonius Block: There's so much to worry people. [...] D
Raval: No use running off to tell. It's everyone f [...] D
Mia: One day is like another. There's nothing stra [...] D
Mia: Who did you see? Jof: The Virgin Mary. Mia: [...] D
Girl: [kneeling in front of Death] It is the end. D
Girl: It is finished. D
[Antonius Block lets Death choose which chess piec [...] D
Karin, Block's Wife: [reading from the Book of Rev [...] D
Antonius Block: I want knowledge! Not faith, not a [...] D
Antonius Block: From our darkness, we call out to [...] D
Antonius Block: Faith is a torment. It is like lov [...] D
[watching a young woman get burned at the stake] [...] D
Jöns: Love is the blackest of all plagues... if [...] D
Antonius Block: My whole life has been nothing but [...] D
Jöns, squire: Whichever way we turn, our rump i [...] D
[Death approaches Antonius Block] Antonius Block: [...] D
Antonius Block: Who are you? Death: I am Death. [...] D
Jöns: [Looking at the religious procession] Is [...] D
[first lines] narrator: And when the Lamb had ope [...] D
Death: Don't you ever stop asking? Antonius Block [...] D
Mia: Don't move. Don't speak. Jof: I'm as silent [...] D
Jonas Skat: It's the filthy Smith who insulted my [...] D
Jöns: Love is nothing but lust and cheating and [...] D
[last lines] Jof: I see them, Mia! I see them! Ov [...] D
Jonas Skat: Kill me. I'll thank you afterwards. D
Jöns, squire: What's that supposed to be? Albe [...] D
[Jonas Skat is in a tree which Death is cutting do [...] D
Jöns, squire: It's not my fault if I hear voice [...] D
Jof: Where are we to perform? Jonas Skat: The sai [...] D
Antonius Block: [to Death] You're a traitor - and [...] D
Jöns: Do you have any brandy? I've had nothing [...] D
Jöns: Love is as contagious as a cold. It eats [...] D
Jöns: It's hell with women and hell without wom [...] D
Blacksmith Plog: I'm going to pinch them in the no [...] D
Jöns: [the witch is about to be burned] Look at [...] D
Jöns, squire: Lord, why did you create women? D
Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for [...] D
Antonius Block: We must make an idol of our fear, [...] D
Antonius Block: They say you have consorted with t [...] D
Antonius Block: Nothing escapes you! Death: Nothi [...] D
Death: Ingenting undgår mig. Ingen undgår mi [...] D
Jöns, squire: God in heaven, if it isn't Plog t [...] D
Jöns, squire: My master and I just returned fro [...] D
Jöns, squire: Farewell, my sweet. I could have [...] D
Jöns: Only fools die of love. D
Mia: You don't look so happy. Antonius Block: No. [...] D
Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing [...] D
Mia: Keep your visions under control. Otherwise pe [...] D
Jof: Have we nothing to offer our guest? Antonius [...] D
Jöns: Our crusade was such madness that only a [...] D
Jöns, squire: I'm a married man, but I expect m [...] D
[In response to Death coming for him] Jonas Skat: [...] D
Jöns: It's hell with women, and hell without. B [...] D
Antonius Block: I want to confess as best I can, b [...] D
Blacksmith Plog: Hey Jöns, purely confidential, [...] D
Antonius Block: This is my hand. I can turn it. Th [...] D
Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of [...] D
Witch: Look into my eyes. [the knight meets her g [...] D
Jöns, squire: [singing] Between a strumpet's le [...] D
Antonius Block: Is it so terribly inconceivable to [...] D
Jöns: The actor plays on the emotions. That's h [...] D
Antonius Block: I shall remember this moment: the [...] D
[the church painter explains why he is painting a [...] D
Jof: And the strict lord Death bids them to dance. D
Jöns: Between a scarlet woman's knees, a man li [...] D
Jöns, squire: Here's squire Jöns. He grins a [...] D
The Monk: [addressing the village crowd] God is pu [...] D