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THE SEVENTH SEAL

8:20

Wednesday, March 7

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Starring Max von Sydow

(1957) Back from the Crusades, knight Max von Sydow plays chess with Death, as he travels in a plague-ridden 14th-century Sweden in quest of his wife. But a traveling juggler and his wife Bibi Andersson can be saved. The first of Bergman’s God-haunted works “contains some of the most extraordinary images ever committed to celluloid” (Nigel Floyd). DCP restoration. Approx. 96 min.

Reviews

“SOME OF BERGMAN’S MOST INDELIBLE IMAGES.”
– Kristin M. Jones, The Wall Street Journal

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