What Soumitra Chatterjee was to Ray, Sydow was to Bergman.
His Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal is probably a face and a character that a first timer foraying into the world of highbrow European cinema would never forget.
As one or the reviews below says : The passionate severity of Von Sydow – and his ability to impersonate the ascetic nobility of some impossibly remote priestly or knightly order but with very human flaws – formed the bedrock of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and the staggering series of films he was to make with Bergman in the 1950s and 1960s.
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His Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal is probably a face and a character that a first timer foraying into the world of highbrow European cinema would never forget.
As one or the reviews below says : The passionate severity of Von Sydow – and his ability to impersonate the ascetic nobility of some impossibly remote priestly or knightly order but with very human flaws – formed the bedrock of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal and the staggering series of films he was to make with Bergman in the 1950s and 1960s.
Max von Sydow, star of The Exorcist and The Seventh Seal, dies aged 90
The veteran actor, best known for his collaborations with Ingmar Bergman, as well as roles in Star Wars and Hannah and Her Sisters, has died
Max von Sydow: an aristocrat of cinema who made me weep | Peter Bradshaw
From his fateful game of chess to a moving turn in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Von Sydow was the last standard bearer of Bergman’s high-minded movie idiom
The Seventh Seal to The Exorcist: Max von Sydow – a life in pictures
Swedish actor Max von Sydow has died at the age of 90. Best known for his work with director Ingmar Bergman as well as The Exorcist, Star Wars and Game of Thrones, here we look back at his stellar career
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