Wood Painting
Release Date: 1963-04-21
Rating : 6/10
Duration : 49 minutes
Genres : Drama, TV Movie
Director : Lennart Olsson
Writer : Ingmar Bergman
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."
Cast
Oscar Ljung
Marianne Wesén
Ulla Akselson
Marianne Wesén
Gudrun Brost
Åke Lindström