Plot: A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Runtime: 96 mins
Release Date: 12 Oct 1957
Starcast: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Gill, Maud Hansson, Inga Landgré, Gunnel Lindblom, Bertil Anderberg, Anders Ek, Åke Fridell, Gunnar Olsson, Erik Strandmark, Siv Aleros, Sten Ardenstam, Harry Asklund, Benkt-Åke Benktsson, Catherine Berg, Lena Bergman, Tor Borong, Gudrun Brost, Bengt Gillberg, Lars Granberg, Gunlög Hagberg, Gun Hammargren, Tor Isedal, Ulf Johansson, Tommy Karlsson, Uno Larsson, Lennart Lilja, Lars Lind, Monica Lindman, Gordon Löwenadler, Mona Malm, Josef Norman, Gösta Prüzelius, Helge Sjökvist, Georg Skarstedt, Ragnar Sörman, Fritjof Tall, Lennart Tollén, Nils Whiten, Caya Wickström, Karl Widh,
Director(s): Ingmar Bergman
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, ,
Tags: knight, medieval times, death
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/
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IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 (213544 votes)
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