What is The Seventh Seal / The Virgin Spring about?

Name: The Seventh Seal / The Virgin Spring
Genre: Drama

THE SEVENTH SEAL, 1957, Janus Films, 92 min. Dir. Ingmar Bergman. While the Black Plague rages all around, medieval knight Max von Sydow plays a game of chess with Death … but who will win? Often imitated and parodied but never equaled, THE SEVENTH SEAL is an astonishing, protean masterpiece: a film to storm the gates of Heaven with. THE VIRGIN SPRING, 1960, Janus Films, 89 min. Dir. Ingmar Bergman. In this period piece set in medieval Sweden, Max Von Sydow plays a deeply religious rural farmer who questions his faith when his daughter is raped and murdered. His response to the crime facilitates a classic Bergman inquiry into the existence of God, and the juxtaposition between brutality and beauty that informs daily life.

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What is The Seventh Seal / The Virgin Spring about?: THE SEVENTH SEAL, 1957, Janus Films, 92 min. Dir. Ingmar Bergman. While the Black Plague rages all around, medieval knight Max von Sydow plays a game of chess with Death … but who will win? Often imitated and parodied but never equaled, THE SEVENTH SEAL is an astonishing, protean masterpiece: a film to storm the gates of Heaven with.
THE VIRGIN SPRING, 1960, Janus Films, 89 min. Dir. Ingmar Bergman. In this period piece set in medieval Sweden, Max Von Sydow plays a deeply religious rural farmer who questions his faith when his daughter is raped and murdered. His response to the crime facilitates a classic Bergman inquiry into the existence of God, and the juxtaposition between brutality and beauty that informs daily life.