The Seventh Seal will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 18 via The Criterion Collection. Neil Kellerhouse designed the cover art for the influential 1957 Swedish historical fantasy.
Ingmar Bergman (Persona, The Virgin Spring) writes and directs. Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Landgré, and Åke Fridell star.
The Seventh Seal has been digitally restored in 4K with uncompressed monaural Swedish audio and an English dub. Special features (included on the Blu-ray disc) are listed below.
Special features:
Introduction by writer-director Ingmar Bergman (2013)
Audio commentary and video afterword by Bergman expert Peter Cowie
Bergman Island - 2006 feature-length documentary on Bergman by Marie Nyreröd
Audio interview with actor Max von Sydow (1998)
Tribute to Bergman by filmmaker Woody Allen (1989)
Bergman 101 - A selected video filmography tracing Bergman’s career, narrated by expert Peter Cowie
Trailer
Booklet with an an essay by critic Gary Giddins
Returning exhausted from the Crusades to find medieval Sweden gripped by the Plague, a knight (Max von Sydow) suddenly comes face-to-face with the hooded figure of Death, and challenges him to a game of chess. As the fateful game progresses, and the knight and his squire encounter a gallery of outcasts from a society in despair, Ingmar Bergman mounts a profound inquiry into the nature of faith and the torment of mortality. One of the most influential films of its time, The Seventh Seal is a stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning and a work of stark visual poetry.
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The Seventh Seal poster - Artist: Huang Hai.
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