The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Seventh Seal rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.1/10· 212K votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic88%

TMDb8.156/10· 3K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.1/10 on IMDb and 88/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Seventh Seal

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Cast of The Seventh Seal

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  Gunnar Björnstrand

  as Jöns

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  Bengt Ekerot

  as Death

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  Nils Poppe

  as Jof

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  Max von Sydow

  as Antonius Block

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  Bibi Andersson

  as Mia

• 

  Inga Gill

  as Lisa

• 

  Maud Hansson

  as Witch

• 

  Inga Landgré

  as Karin

• 

  Gunnel Lindblom

  as Mute Girl

• B

  Bertil Anderberg

  as Raval

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  Anders Ek

  as Monk

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  Åke Fridell

  as Plog

The Seventh Seal facts

Original title

Det sjunde inseglet

Budget

$150K

Box office

$311.2K

Our take on The Seventh Seal

Bergman's 1957 masterpiece follows a disillusioned knight who plays chess with Death itself while plague ravages medieval Sweden, searching for meaning before the end. Stark, philosophical and indelibly imaged, it's a cornerstone of art cinema. If its meditation on faith and mortality gripped you, seek out contemplative classics that wrestle with God, death and the silence in between.