The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman · 1957 CE · Film · Nordic · Contemporary

A knight home from the crusades lands in a Sweden emptied by plague and meets Death on the shore, who agrees to a game of chess for as long as it lasts. He rides on with his squire, falls in with a family of travelling players, and keeps asking for one piece of certain knowledge about God. Silence where God should answer.

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Lineage

• parallels ↑ The Book of Job
  Anonymous · c. 500 BCE · Scripture

Attributes

Closest analogues

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  45% · 10 shared
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  42% · 10 shared
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• The Road
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• The Waste Land
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  41% · 9 shared
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• The Centaur
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  38% · 10 shared
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• The Faerie Queene
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  38% · 9 shared
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