Wood Painting

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."

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 21, 1963

Original language

Swedish

Spoken languages

swedish

Countries

Sweden

Production

Sveriges Radio (SR),Sveriges Radio

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0181087