![]() The film takes its title from the Book of Revelation, and in 1956 the threat of Apocalypse felt as real as it must have been in medieval Sweden. Max von Sydow stars as a fourteenth-century knight named Antonius Block returning home to a plague-ridden Sweden after fighting in the Crusades. The Seventh Seal is Bergman’s most famous film, and is often described as one of the great seminal events of twentieth-century cinema. ![]() In addition to filmmaking, Bergman directed and produced numerous plays, including a famous interpretation of August Strindberg’s Inferno (1898), a work that is also influenced by Swedenborg. Bergman was well known for his interest in the scientist and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), a fellow countryman and seminal influence on artistic culture. Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) wrote and directed over fifty feature films, and from the late 1950s his work has become canonical to ‘art-house’ movie culture, academic cinema studies and film clubs all over the world. ![]() ![]() TONIGHT begins the 2012 Swedenborg Film Season, with a special screening of THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957) by INGMAR BERGMAN (1918-2007). INGMAR BERGMAN: A Season of Films at Swedenborg House | 13, 20, 27 September 2012 | Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A The Seventh Seal (1957): Bergman & Swedenborg ![]()
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