The Seventh Seal - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[tom]

The first show in the cinema: 02/16/1956 (cinema "Reda Qarn").

[mathew]

Nils Poppe was famous in Sweden for being a comedic actor, therefor it's quite appropriate that his character, Jof, is a jester.

[kenneth]

The title is a Biblical quotation from The Revelation of St. John the Divine, chapter 8.

[melinda]

Ingmar Bergman credited the film with helping him overcome his crippling fear of death. Because the film dealt so overtly with the subject, he found it a highly cathartic experience.

[clayton]

Both Van Halen and Scott Walker (from his album Scott 4) have named a song after The Seventh Seal (1957), both are inspired by this Ingmar Bergman film. The Van Halen one also mentions The Virgin Spring (1960).

[sara]

The name of the character played by Gunnel Lindblom is never given and she speaks no lines in the film until the penultimate scene where she has the final line of the group being taken by Death: "It is finished."