The read
It runs a compact 49m.
Synopsis
A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."
Ratings
IMDb5/10
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Lennart OlssonDirector
- Ingmar BergmanWriter
Cast
- Oscar LjungThe knight
- Marianne WesénCast
- Ulla AkselsonThe witch
- Marianne WesénThe girl
- Gudrun BrostLisa
- Åke LindströmThe smith
- Marianne HedengranMaria
- Georg ÅrlinThe actor
- Margareta BergfeltKarin
- Folke SundquistThe narrator
- Olof BergströmJöns
Stills
Themes
anxiousdramatic