The second of three movies in which Bruce Willis meets a younger version of himself. The first was 12 Monkeys (1995) and the third would be Looper (2012).
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Official submission of Sweden for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 30th Academy Awards in 1958.
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The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.
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The procession of flagellants chant the Dies Irae, a famous thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Tommaso da Celano. Before stopping in the village they chant stanzas 1-4 and the Lacrimosa, stanza 18. These are repeated as the procession departs.
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Another parody of the film happens in the Monty Python movie, "Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail" during which a group of "flagellants" walk through a village; only instead of using whips on their backs, they bonk themselves on their foreheads with boards.
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The script is based on a one act play Bergman wrote 1953/4 as an exercise for the acting students at the Malmö City Theatre. He asked the pupils to suggest roles that they wanted to play. Based on this he wrote a few pages of monologues. After the exercise Bergman processed the material to the finished piece called "Wood Painting". "Wood Painting" has many similarities with "The Seventh Seal".
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Max von Sydow's first film for Ingmar Bergman.
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Mentioned in the Bruce Cockburn song "How I Spent My Fall Vacation", "like that guy in The Seventh Seal watching the newly dead dance across the hills"
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The last two minutes of the film are pure improvisation. The actors have played the whole final scene, when Bergman saw in the sky a cloud of unusual shape. He told the troupe again wear costumes and directed a new version of the final scene in one take.
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The church which Jöns and Antonius Block arrives at 15 minutes into the film is actually a model hung in the dead tree in the foreground.
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Jury Special Prize at Cannes Films Festival, 1957.
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Ingmar Bergman began writing the screenplay for The Seventh Seal (1957) while he was in Stockholm's Karolinska Hospital, recovering from a stomach complaint.
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The last-but-one scene in which Death is dancing away with his followers was shot when some of the actors had gone home for the day, using some technicians and a few tourists as stand-ins. Ingmar Bergman conceived the scene on the spot, and had to improvise quickly because of an interesting cloud formation that he wanted in the background.
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Filmed over a period of 35 days for only $150,000.
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The script was initially rejected. Ingmar Bergman would end up rewriting it five times. It was only after the success of Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) at Cannes that it started to be considered more seriously.
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Prize for best foreign director, Circulo de Escritores Cinematográficos, Spain 1962.
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The chess pieces used in the movie was sold from Ingmar Bergman's descendent's estate in 2009 for 1m Swedish Krona (around USD$145,000 at the time).
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The inspiration for this film was said to be drawn from the period films of Akira Kurosawa, of which Ingmar Bergman was a big fan.
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Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot Gunnar Björnstrand and Bibi Andersson reunited with Ingmar Bergman in The Magician (1958).
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Nominated in the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival, France 1957.
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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