Neither Black Death Nor Covid-19 But He Lost The Game Anyway...Max von Sydow

Great actor Max von Sydow died on March 8th 2020. (I liked his every film I saw .)

Frank M. Snowden, The New Yorker, March 3 2020:

“…You can see this even into the twentieth century with that wonderful film by Ingmar Bergman, “The Seventh Seal,” where the plague is a metaphor for what Bergman was worried about in 1957, which is nuclear war. One can see that it has all the things that I’ve been talking about with regard to the plague, including the danse macabre with which the film ends. You’d see paintings of the Grim Reaper coming, and it really is an example of the persistence of this artistic response to death….”

Wikipedia informs:

"The Seventh Seal  is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in Sweden during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot), who has come to take his life..."

from Ingmar Bergman's  'The Virgin Spring', 1960