Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom (born 18 December 1931) is a Swedish film actress and director. The Seventh Seal is filled with big, memorable images. The Seventh Seal is filled with big, memorable images. Those featured in The Seventh Seal include Gunnar Björnstrand, Åke Fridell, Gunnel Lindblom, Anders Ek and Bibi Andersson. Already a figure of international acclaim for such masterpieces as The Seventh Seal and The Magician, Bergman turned his back on the expressionism of his fifties work to focus on a series of chamber dramas exploring belief and alienation in the modern age. Admission is free, but a separate ticket is required for each film.

For filmgoers of a certain age (baby boomers who attended college between the late '50s and late '60s), The Seventh Seal was their first exposure to the films of Ingmar Bergman. The knight playing chess with Death by the seashore is one of the most enduring images in world cinema.

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. The Seventh Seal is an absolute must see for any would be student of the cinema and this is the package to see it on. As an actress she has been particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, though in 1965 she performed the lead role in Miss Julie for BBC Television. Equally memorable is the procession of crazed flagellants seeking to do penance harsh enough to appease God's wrath. Editorial Reviews. The Seventh Seal Girl (1957) Sången om den eldröda blomman Kerstin (1956) Krut och kärlek Inga (1956) Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom in The Girls Michael Patrick Kelly’s documentary Operation Lysistrata, Melvin James‘ A Miami Tail, and Mai Zetterling’s The Girls will be screened at the Getty Villa’s Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14-15. In 1960, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman began work on three of his most powerful and representative films, eventually presented as a trilogy. The knight playing chess with Death by the seashore is one of the most enduring images in world cinema. With Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe. The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.Set in Sweden during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot), who has come to take his life.Bergman developed the film from his own play Wood Painting. Max von Sydow plays the iconic knight Antonius Block who has just returned from the Crusades with this loyal squire Jons(Gunnar Björnstrand). And indeed, the film has been referenced by other directors, from Woody Allen to Barry Levinson, as well as becoming the subject of a popular parody short, Dove. Equally memorable is the procession of crazed flagellants seeking to do penance harsh enough to appease God's wrath.