The Seventh Seal

by Melvyn Bragg

The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad Death, whom the knight invites to play a game of chess. Bergman's medieval allegory of faith and doubt is dark with the horrors of witch-burnings and the plague. But it is also shot through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839021756
• ISBN13: 9781839021756
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.3"