Wood Painting

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."

• Lennart OlssonDirector
• Ingmar BergmanWriter

• Oscar LjungThe knight
• Marianne WesénCast
• Ulla AkselsonThe witch
• Marianne WesénThe girl
• Gudrun BrostLisa
• Åke LindströmThe smith
• Marianne HedengranMaria
• Georg ÅrlinThe actor
• Margareta BergfeldtKarin
• Folke SundquistThe narrator
• Olof BergströmJöns