The Seventh Seal (1957)

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

• allegory
• artist
• blacksmith
• burning of witches
• chess
• countryside
• crusade
• death incarnate
• death personified
• demon
• dying and death
• juggler
• last judgment
• pest
• sense of life
• symbolism
• witch