Reel Faith: The Seventh Seal

Death & the Knight Play Chess

Our "Reel Faith" film series continues Thursday Oct. 22, 2009 with a showing of the Ingmar Bergman Classic The Seventh Seal  (1957) at 7 pm in the Fellowship Room. 

This beautiful black and white drama follows the journey of a world-weary knight (Max von Sydow) returning home from the Crusades when he encounters Death on a beach.  The knight challenges death to a game of chess -- a symbol for the film's themes of the human struggle with life, death, love, pain, purpose, and the existence of God.  If you haven't seen this masterpeice since your college film class, it's time to revisit it again.  Following the film there will a brief discussion.  As always, free popcorn will be available. 96 minutes with Swedish subtitles.

See a clip of the film here or read what others have to say about the film here and here.