Tuesday 29 July 2008

On the first anniversary of his death, Film4 presents a short season of films by Ingmar Bergman. One of cinema's seminal films, Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece passes the test of time. A knight and his squire (Max Von Sydow and Gunnar Bjornstrand), returning home from the Crusades through a plague-ridden land, meet Death (Bengt Ekerot) who engages the knight in a chess game as the pair debate the mysteries of life, faith and death itself.