Ingmar Bergman - O Sétimo Selo- Cenas do encontro com a feiticeira e Final

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Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal - Finale: Dance of Death

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"The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet), final scene, the dance with death. Jof describes it to his wife, Mia....She can't see it and remarks again on his private visions.

Jof the Jester: "I see them, Mia! I see them! Over there against the dark stormy sky. They dance away from the dawn and it's a solemn dance toward the dark lands, while the rain washes their faces and cleans the salt of the tears from their cheeks."

Nils Poppe ... Jof
Bibi Andersson ... Mia, Jof's wife

this scene has been parodied a number of times -- in Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975), Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Last Action Hero (1993), and many commercials.


Dr. J Paul Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of English, Winona State University, writes:

Death's triumph-- In the morning, Poppe, Andersson, and their baby have been spared; the plague has passed them. Poppe looks up to see Ekerot leading Von Sydow, Bjornstrand, Fridell and his wife, Anderberg, and Gunnel Lindblom in a dance across the crest of a hill, the figures silhouetted hand-in-hand in a chain against the dawn sky.

Spontaneous death dance-- The famous, final dance of death was spontaneously created: Bergman had finished the day's shooting when he saw a beautiful cloud in the sky, and, unwilling to let the image go unfilmed, hurriedly got crew members to dress in the costumes of the already-departed actors and form the silhouetted procession. The scene was shot in just a few minutes, without rehearsal.


Film released in 1957. Directed by Ingmar Bergman (born, July 14, 1918 -- died, July 30, 2007).

— from an interview with Ingmar Bergman, (1971):

"Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death—this infantile fixation of mine—was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry—with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.'"
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