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Wood Painting(1963)
Status: Released
Date: 1963-04-21
60%
4 Votes
Time: 0h 49m
Overview:
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."
Languages: Swedish.
Countries:
Sweden
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Wood Painting
Top 10 Billed Cast
Oscar Ljung
The knight
Gudrun Brost
Lisa
Åke Lindström
The smith
Georg Årlin
The actor
Folke Sundquist
The narrator
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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."
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1963-04-21
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