Bergmann delivers with beautiful photography the intriquite dilemma of life, death and meaning. The black plague is the perfect background to behold the obscurity of dogma, the absurdity of superstition, the avail of scepticisim and overall the resisting triumph of the living, of love and art. A movie I will definetly watch some day again.
Btw. why do you think the actor was the only other character that saw death and had religious visions?