Le Septième Sceau
L'histoire d'un défi à la mort.
1957 • 96 min • Fantasy · Drama
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
- 81 Audience · 3399 · 49%
Un chevalier désabusé, de retour des croisades, défie la Mort aux échecs en pleine Peste Noire, espérant trouver un sens à son existence et accomplir une bonne action. Il voyage avec des comédiens ambulants, aux prises avec la foi, le désespoir et l'inéluctabilité de la mortalité.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 2/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Discussions sur la peste et la mort
- Brèves scènes de bûcher de sorcières
- Moments de désespoir et de peur intenses
- Quelques images troublantes
What it models well
- La quête de sens et de but
- L'amour et les liens familiaux
- Le courage face au désespoir
- La protection de l'innocence
Talk about it after
- Le sens de la vie et de la mort
- Les questions de foi et de doute
- Comment les gens gèrent la peur
- L'importance de la gentillesse
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Top billed cast
Director: Ingmar Bergman • Crew: Ingmar Bergman
Trailers & clips
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Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersNow of course everyone’s favourite Max von Sydow film is “Flash Gordon” (1980) but I reckon this performance for Ingmar Bergman might be almost as good! With the dreaded Black Death sweeping his homeland, “Block” (MvS) returns from the Crusades with his squire “Jöns” (Gunnar Björnstrand) only to find himself barely off the boat before he encounters the apparently quite reasonable grim reaper himself.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewers**The universality and invincibility of Death, the fear of dying, the importance of faith and its use by the Church in a timeless film, but not suitable for everyone.** The film, set in the late Middle Ages, begins with a knight returning to his homeland in Sweden after participating in the crusades.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 8.1/10 (3,399)
- Age rating
- NR
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $150,000
- Box office
- $311,212
- IMDb
- tt0050976