FILM 1160: THE SEVENTH SEAL
TRIVIA: Of the 50+ films he has
done, this is one of Ingmar
Bergman's own rare favorites.
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.
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).
Ingmar Bergman based the
entire iconography of the movie on murals in a church where his clergyman
father used to go and preach.
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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