1921 · drama · historical
Leaves from Satan's Book
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer2h 37m1921
The power of Satan is highlighted in four historical tales: the betrayal and subsequent arrest of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the execution of Marie Antoinette, and the Finnish War of Independence in 1918.
Our read: Leaves from Satan's Book (1921) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · historical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / historical, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
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