Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman''s best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director''s unmistakeable signature.
The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad Death, whom the knight invites to play a game of chess. Bergman''s medieval allegory of faith and doubt is dark with the horrors of...