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."
Stars: Oscar Ljung, Marianne Wesén, Ulla Akselson, Marianne Wesén, Gudrun Brost, Åke Lindström
Crew: Lennart Olofsson-Leo (Costume Design), Lennart Olsson (Director), Ingmar Bergman (Writer), Lennart Olofsson-Leo (Production Design), Henrik Dyfverman (Producer)
Country: Sweden
Language: svenska
Studio: Sveriges Radio
Runtime: 49 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 21, 1963
IMDb: 5
