The Seventh Seal

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.

• witch
• dying and death
• blacksmith
• chess
• countryside
• allegory
• crusade
• artist
• juggler
• witch burning
• last judgment
• symbolism
• sense of life
• matter of life and death
• grim reaper
• black and white
• demon
• belief in god
• middle ages (476-1453)
• meaning of life
• virgin mary
• black death
• playing chess
• death personified
• death incarnate
• life teacher
• metaphysical
• 14th century
• seeking a god
• metaphysical drama
• metaphysics, mysticism, kabbalah, spiritism
• the virgin mary
• ambiguous
• facing death