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."
Directed by Lennart Olsson · Written by Ingmar Bergman
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Cast
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Oscar Ljung The knight - Marianne Wesén
- Ulla Akselson The witch
- Marianne Wesén The girl
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Gudrun Brost Lisa -
Åke Lindström The smith - Marianne Hedengran Maria
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Georg Årlin The actor -
Margareta Bergfelt Karin -
Folke Sundquist The narrator -
Olof Bergström Jöns
Make it a double feature
2h 25m together
Wood Painting
The Seventh Seal
Both from Lennart Olsson.
