: The knight challenges Death to a game of chess not just to survive, but to gain enough time to perform one "meaningful deed" in a world he sees as hollow after returning from the Crusades.
: Renowned critic Roger Ebert noted that the film's "uncompromising" directness regarding good and evil is what makes it a masterpiece of world cinema. subtitle The.Seventh.Seal.1957.720p.BluRay.x264...
: While the film captures the bleak atmosphere of the Black Death, it is famously full of anachronisms. Director Ingmar Bergman intentionally used a "symbolic" version of the Middle Ages rather than a strictly historical one to explore modern existential themes. : The knight challenges Death to a game