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."

Cast

Oscar Ljung

The knight

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Marianne Wesén

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Ulla Akselson

The witch

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Marianne Wesén

The girl

Gudrun Brost

Lisa

Åke Lindström

The smith

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Marianne Hedengran

Maria

Georg Årlin

The actor

Margareta Bergfelt

Karin

Folke Sundquist

The narrator

Olof Bergström

Jöns