Wood Painting
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."
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Director: Lennart Olsson
Cast
Oscar Ljung
The knight
Marianne Wesén
Ulla Akselson
The witch
Marianne Wesén
The girl
Gudrun Brost
Lisa
Åke Lindström
The smith
Marianne Hedengran
Maria
Georg Årlin
The actor
Margareta Bergfelt
Karin
Folke Sundquist
The narrator
Olof Bergström
Jöns
