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The Seventh Seal
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #160
- IMDb #233
- Google retired #814
- Rotten Tomatoes #252
- Metacritic #151
- Letterboxd #114
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #670
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #247
- Metacritic Critics #263
- Metacritic Audience #136
- Criticker #69
- Douban #325
- Kinopoisk #299
- AlloCiné #949
- Trakt #492
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 75, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 93.
See the most agreed on films →A medieval knight returns from the Crusades to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. He is met by the personification of Death, who has come for him. The knight challenges Death to a game of chess for his life. As the game continues over days, the knight journeys across the bleak landscape, searching for some evidence of God's existence in a world filled with suffering.
Details
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Writer
- Ingmar Bergman
- Based on
- Wood painting by Ingmar Bergman
- Studio
- SF Studios
- Released
- 16 February 1957
- Country
- Sweden
- Language
- Swedish, Latin
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $150.0K
- Box office
- $311.2K
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
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| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1958 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Sweden | Nominee |
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