“The Seventh Seal” may not be Ingmar Bergman’s best film, but it is for sure one of the most iconic of his whole career. Who can forget the image of Death playing chess with the Knight? There have been countless parodies of the scene, the best one perhaps in Woody Allen’s “Love and Death“.
It is also a film that, despite its grim theme, is actually quite funny (dark humor, of course).
While the performance of Max Von Sidow as the Knight is justly celebrated, my favorite character is his sidekick the Squire, interpreted by the great Gunnar Bjornstrand.
The scene of the burning of the witch (with its nod to Carl Dreyer’s “Joan of Arc”) is very haunting.
The film inspired several parodic short films as well. One of the best can be watched here.
Bergman’s film can be watched full for free, in the following link.
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