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Title Statement | The seventh seal [DVD] / Janus Films, Svensk Filmindustri ; produced by Allan Ekelund ; written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. |
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Series | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) |
Additional Contributors | Bergman, Ingmar,1918-2007 |
Björnstrand, Gunnar,1909-1986 | |
Sydow, Max von,1929- | |
Andersson, Bibi | |
Publication | [New York]: Criterion Collection, c2009. |
Extent of Item | 2 videodiscs (97 min.) |
ISBN | 1604651415 (v.r.) 9781604651416 (v.r.) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 715515044516 |
Other Number | 2001892 |
General Notes | Disc label title. DVDs. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Standard version. Special features include: introduction by Ingmar Berman, audio commentary by Peter Cowie, archival audio interview with Max von Sydow, a 1989 tribute to Bergman by filmmaker Woody Allen, theatrical trailer, 83-minute documentary on Bergman, video filmography of Bergman. Booklet inserted in container. |
Performance Credits | Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Bengt Ekerot. |
Languages | In Swedish or English (dubbed) with English subtitles. |
System Details | DVDs, Dolby mono. |
Terms of Use | Public performance rights. |
Summary | An allegory on man's search for meaning. Von Sydow stars as a medieval knight returning from the Crusades. He encounters Death, and plays a chess game with him, with his life and soul as the stakes. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Death--Fiction |
Motion pictures, Swedish | |
Foreign films | |
By Genre | Feature films |