Mary Magdalene, the sinner, who had been the last to sleep with her? The Knight playing chess with Death. Death sawing down the Tree of Life, a terrified wretch wringing his hands in the top of it. Bergman has also mentioned Carl Orff's choral work Carmina Burana, based on medieval songs by itinerant musicians drifting around Europe at the time of the plagues and great wars.
One day when I was listening to the final choral in Carmina Burana, it suddenly struck me that I had the theme for my next film! Bergman himself has always been sparing when it comes to revealing literary inspirations for the film, but several critics have named August Strindberg's Saga of the Folkungs some were of the opinion that it was a medieval drama along similar lines to Strindberg's, whereas others saw the film as unabashed plagiarism.
In an ambivalent review, Expressen's Ivar Harrie wrote that Bergman is "the Swedish champion of pretentious trash", at the same time as being a "great poet, a poet of images.
He expresses himself with equal vulgarity in both roles, and with equal authenticity. In a nutshell, his ambition is to be Sweden's Kaj Munk. This is an ambition that may appear presumptuous. Yet Ingmar Bergman is welcome to have it. But the origins of The Seventh Seal can also be traced to Bergman's own oeuvre.
In addition to Wood Painting , mentioned above a number of passages in his early works are reminiscent of scenes in the film. In his play The Death of Punch , for example, which he directed and staged for the Stockholm Student Theatre in , there is a scene in which the principal character Punch is confronted by two men carrying a coffin.
Words are exchanged, strikingly similar to the lines in The Seventh Seal where Death saws down the tree that holds the actor Skat. Maaret Koskinen also observes that the final stage directions for The Day Ends Early from based on a screenplay that was never filmed, The Comedy about Jenny bear similarities to the conclusion of The Seventh Seal.
They disappear one by one. Finally, only darkness and the storm remain. In terms of cinematic precedents, the witch-burning scene has drawn comparisons with a similar scene in Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath , but if this is a conscious reference, Bergman himself has never mentioned it.
I liked less Beauty and the Beast , which seemed to me too contrived. And to speak of a German influence is to commit an inaccuracy. Finally, the most obvious source of inspiration for this theological film par excellence is, of course, the Bible. The title itself, as so often in Bergman, is a biblical quotation, from the Book of Revelation the film opens with the full text. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Shooting began on 2 July Cinematographer Gunnar Fischer recalls that shooting the introduction scene caused a number of problems: simply carrying a kg camera down to the pebble beach was a feat in itself. Given the technological restraints, it is hardly surprising that so many films at that time were shot in the studio.
On the subject of the lighting for the most famous of all the scenes in the film, in which the knight plays chess with Death, Fischer remarked: 'You can see that each of them has a 2 kg lamp behind him, illuminating his profile. People said to me that that has to mean that there are two suns.
That's quite right,' I said. But if you can accept Death sitting playing a game of chess, then you can also accept two suns [ In one scene Nils Poppe's band of players meet the corpse plunderer Raval Bertil Anderberg in the forest. Raval has finally succumbed to the plague. Terror-stuck, the players follow Raval's, long, wild, and stifling struggle with death in a forest glade. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.
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