Wood Painting ( 1963 )

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."

Top 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 Bergfeldt

Karin

Folke Sundquist

The narrator

Olof Bergström

Jöns