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Bengt Ekerot
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Max von Sydow as Antonius Block and Bengt Ekerot as Death play chess outdoors in a scene from Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal, with a wagon in the background.
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Bengt Ekerot

Swedish actor and director
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Max von Sydow as Antonius Block and Bengt Ekerot as Death play chess outdoors in a scene from Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal, with a wagon in the background.
Max von Sydow and Bengt Ekerot in The Seventh Seal Max von Sydow (left) and Bengt Ekerot in The Seventh Seal (1957), directed and written by Ingmar Bergman.

Bengt Ekerot was a Swedish actor and director. He is widely recognized for his role as Death in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 allegorical film, The Seventh Seal. In the film, Ekerot's character engages in a game of chess with a disillusioned knight returning from the Crusades, who is questioning his faith amidst a plague-ridden homeland. Ekerot's portrayal of Death is a significant element in this classic of world cinema.1

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  1. The Seventh Seal
  2. Gunnar Björnstrand
  3. Gösta Ekman
  4. History of film - Sweden
  5. Svensk Filmindustri

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