What is The Seventh Seal/Through A Glass Darkly about?

Double Feature: THE SEVENTH SEAL, 1957, Janus Films, 92 min. Arguably Ingmar Bergman’s most iconic film. While the Black Plague rages all around, medieval knight Max von Sydow plays a game of chess with Death … but who will win? 50th Anniversary! THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, 1961, Janus Films, 89 min. While vacationing on a remote island, a family’s fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, Karin’s father (Gunnar Björnstrand), husband (Max von Sydow) and younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent her harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness. Both films in Swedish with English subtitles.

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What is The Seventh Seal/Through A Glass Darkly about?: Double Feature: THE SEVENTH SEAL, 1957, Janus Films, 92 min. Arguably Ingmar Bergman’s most iconic film. While the Black Plague rages all around, medieval knight Max von Sydow plays a game of chess with Death … but who will win?

50th Anniversary! THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, 1961, Janus Films, 89 min. While vacationing on a remote island, a family’s fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, Karin’s father (Gunnar Björnstrand), husband (Max von Sydow) and younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent her harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness. Both films in Swedish with English subtitles.