Word: svenske
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Seventh Seal (AB Svensk Film-industri; Janus). Ingmar Bergman, the 40-year-old Swede who wrote and directed this powerful and peculiar picture, is the son of a well-known Swedish clergyman, and he says that the film was inspired by childhood memories of "the strange vegetation of medieval paintings and carved figures on ceilings and walls" in churches where his father preached. Working with several of the common themes of medieval art (the Black Plague, the Wise Fool, the Night Journey, Death Sawing at the Tree of Life, the Game of Chess with Death), Moviemaker Bergman has attempted...
...Svensk; Rank). On the subject of temptation, Martin Luther once said: "You can't prevent the birds flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With this for his text, Swedish Director Ingmar (Torment) Bergman*has preached in this picture a sermon on sensuality that the pastor of Wittenberg would scarcely have said amen to. But the Swedes, whose notions about sex have changed since Luther's time, were tickled pink with the picture. So were a lot of European critics...