The prologue to Leaves from Satan’s Book recounts the familiar tale of Satan’s banishment from Heaven. In order to return, Satan is doomed to perform acts of temptation upon humanity with the stipulation that for every soul who yields, 100 years will be added to his time on earth. However, for every soul who resists, […]
Tag: Danish Cinema
The Parson’s Widow, 1920
A young theologian of modest means named Söfren (Einar Röd) has long courted his beloved Mari (Greta Almroth), but their hoped for marriage has been indefinitely postponed by Mari’s father until Söfren has been able to find a respectable post as parson of his own church. One day, an opportunity presents itself when the parson […]
The President, 1919
It perhaps comes as no surprise, given Carl Theodor Dreyer’s lifelong, idealized melancholy over his own unresolved parentage, that the scenario selected for his first film, The President would involve three generations of children conceived out of wedlock, and thematically crystallize on the legacy of their unreconciled paternity in the resolution of their own disparate […]