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'''''Leaves from Satan's Book''''', also known as '''''Leaves Out of the Book of Satan''''' ({{lang-da|'''Blade af Satans bog'''}}), is a 1921 Danish [[drama film]] directed by [[Carl Theodor Dreyer]] and starring [[Helge Nissen]].<ref name="NY Times">{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/28779/Leaves-from-Satan-s-Book/overview |title=New York Times: Leaves from Satan's Book |accessdate=24 August 2008|work=NY Times | first=Dave | last=Kehr}}</ref>
'''''Leaves from Satan's Book''''', also known as '''''Leaves Out of the Book of Satan''''' ({{lang-da|'''Blade af Satans bog'''}}), is a 1921 Danish [[fantasy film]] directed by [[Carl Theodor Dreyer]] and starring [[Helge Nissen]] as Satan.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/28779/Leaves-from-Satan-s-Book/overview |title=New York Times: Leaves from Satan's Book |accessdate=24 August 2008|work=NY Times | first=Dave | last=Kehr}}</ref> This was only the third film directed by Dreyer, who later went on to create such classics as ''[[Vampyr]]'' (1931) and ''[[The Passion of Joan of Arc]]'' (1928). The film is structured much like D.W. Griffith's ''[[Intolerance]]'' (1916) with its episodic nature while evoking F. W. Murnau's ''[[Satanas]]'' (1920).<ref>Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 239.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>


==Plot==
==Plot==
Satan has been cast out from hell and banished to Earth under decree of heaven. He can return, only through a series of temptations. However, for every soul who gives in to his tempting, one hundred years are added to his sentence. For every soul who resists, one thousand years are removed from his sentence. The film follows Satan throughout much of recorded history.
Satan has been cast out from Hell and banished to Earth under decree of Heaven. He can return only after overseeing a series of temptations. However, for every soul who gives in to his tempting, one hundred years are added to his sentence. For every soul who resists, one thousand years are subtracted from his sentence. The film follows Satan throughout much of recorded history, focusing mainly on four short episodes. First he tempts Judas to betray Jesus, then he goes on to influence the Spanish Inquisition, spark the French Revolution and finally he causes the Franco-Russian War of 1918 to occur.

In the film, God says to Satan, "But know thee that for each man yielding to thy temptation the doom upon thee shalt be prolonged by one hundred years, but for each one resisting thee, thou shalt be relieved of 1000 years of thy judgment. Get thee away and continue thy evil doings."


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 19:51, 20 January 2019

Leaves from Satan's Book
Directed byCarl Theodor Dreyer
Written byMarie Corelli
Edgar Høyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer
StarringHelge Nissen
CinematographyGeorge Schnéevoigt
Release date
  • 24 January 1921 (1921-01-24)
Running time
167 minutes
CountryDenmark
LanguageSilent

Leaves from Satan's Book, also known as Leaves Out of the Book of Satan (Template:Lang-da), is a 1921 Danish fantasy film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and starring Helge Nissen as Satan.[1] This was only the third film directed by Dreyer, who later went on to create such classics as Vampyr (1931) and The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). The film is structured much like D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916) with its episodic nature while evoking F. W. Murnau's Satanas (1920).[2]

Plot

Satan has been cast out from Hell and banished to Earth under decree of Heaven. He can return only after overseeing a series of temptations. However, for every soul who gives in to his tempting, one hundred years are added to his sentence. For every soul who resists, one thousand years are subtracted from his sentence. The film follows Satan throughout much of recorded history, focusing mainly on four short episodes. First he tempts Judas to betray Jesus, then he goes on to influence the Spanish Inquisition, spark the French Revolution and finally he causes the Franco-Russian War of 1918 to occur.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Kehr, Dave. "New York Times: Leaves from Satan's Book". NY Times. Retrieved 24 August 2008.
  2. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 239.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.


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