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Wood Painting

April 21 1963 (over 61 years ago)
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  • Director: Lennart Olsson
  • Genres: Drama, TV Movie
  • Runtime: 49 m
  • Country: Sweden
  • Company: Sveriges Radio

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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