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Released
1963 · FILM

Painting-On-Wood

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
49 min
Language
SV
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

A knight returns home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land, only to find his country gripped by the Black Death. He encounters a recently burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a depiction of the Virgin Mary with her child, and the knight's own faithful wife. Together, they approach the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death." The narrator opens 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."

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Principal cast & crew: 14

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Designed by Lennart Olofsson

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