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Certificate PG

Cast Max Von Sydow Gunnar Bjornstrand Nils Poppe Bibi Andersson Bengt Ekerot

Directors Ingmar Bergman

Screenwriters Ingmar Bergman

Running Time 96 minutes

The Seventh Seal
For all its medieval setting, Ingmar Bergman's genius creation asks the quintessential questions facing post-War humanity in the late 20th century

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Plot
Crusader knight Antonius Blok returns to 14th-century Sweden with his squire, Jöns, seeking a purpose to assuage his religious doubt and finds it in challenging Death to a game of chess so that travelling players Jof and his wife, Mia, can escape from the ravages of the Plague.

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