The Seventh Seal

Det sjunde inseglet (1957)

Timing: 1:36 (96 min)

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Video 4

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Actors and characters

Release date

1957-02-16

Country

Sweden

Production

SF Studios

Genre

Fantasy, Drama

Budget

$150 000

Revenue

$311 212

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Director

Ingmar Bergman

Actors

Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Gill, Maud Hansson, Inga Landgré, Gunnel Lindblom, Bertil Anderberg
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Allan Ekelund

Operator

Gunnar Fischer

Composer

Erik Nordgren

Artist

Audition

Editing

Lennart Wallén
All team (17)

• The film's screenplay is based on a one-act play, Trämålning ("Wood Painting"), written by Bergman for the first graduating class of the Malmö theatre school where he taught. This exercise play consisted of monologues, and the number of roles corresponded to the number of graduating students.
• The title is taken from "The Book of Revelation".
• In the scene of the witch burning, as the camera slowly pans from the guards breaking firewood to the bonfire, the roof and windows of a multi-story building can be seen in the background.
• During the filming of the witch burning scene, the firefighters on set were so zealous that they flooded one of the rooms in a nearby laboratory.
• The last two minutes of the film are pure improvisation. The actors had already filmed the entire final scene when Bergman noticed a cloud of unusual shape in the sky. He ordered the troupe to put their costumes back on and filmed a new version of the concluding scene in one take.
• The screenplay of the film is based on the one-act play 'Trämålning' ('Wood Painting'), written by Bergman for the first graduation performance of the theatre school in Malmö, where he taught. This play-exercise consisted of monologues, and the number of roles corresponded to the number of graduating students.
• The title is taken from the 'Book of Revelation'.