Q 01/05

During which calamity is The Seventh Seal set?

A) The plague

B) A famine

C) A flood

D) A civil war

Answer · why

A) The plague

The plague is ravaging Sweden as the knight comes home from the Crusades; Bergman shot the famous finale of Death leading the travellers away in a hur...

Q 02/05

What was the profession of Bergman's father, Erik?

A) Army officer

B) Lutheran minister

C) University professor

D) Physician

Answer · why

B) Lutheran minister

Lutheran minister Erik Bergman, later chaplain to the royal court, was a stern disciplinarian who punished and publicly humiliated his children.

Q 03/05

In The Seventh Seal, what game does the knight Antonius Block play against Death?

A) Dice

B) Cards

C) Chess

D) Backgammon

Answer · why

C) Chess

Chess is the game: the knight Antonius Block challenges Death to a match on the beach and reckons he will live as long as it lasts.

Q 04/05

Who played Death in The Seventh Seal?

A) Gunnar Bjornstrand

B) Anders Ek

C) Erland Josephson

D) Bengt Ekerot

Answer · why

D) Bengt Ekerot

Bengt Ekerot had directed the Stockholm stage version of Wood Painting, the play the film grew from, before he played Death on screen.

Q 05/05

The Seventh Seal takes its title from which book of the Bible?

A) Genesis

B) Ezekiel

C) Revelation

D) Lamentations

Answer · why

C) Revelation

Revelation supplies the title, and Bergman drew the film's imagery from medieval church murals such as those painted by Albertus Pictor.