Storyline

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.

Plot Keywords

knight, medieval times, based on play, religion, superstition, morality, christianity, surrealism, existentialism, church, middle ages, chess, death, apocalypse, confessional, corpse, despair, doubt, marriage, adultery

Short Review

You can hunt about in the history of the cinema and bring up a distant cousin or two for Bergman's great work. Yet, when all the delving is done, this film remains something quite distinct, a wonderful film which is not quite like any other.

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