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The Child AKA Barnet (1940) Benjamin Christensen, Agis Winding, Bjarne Forchhammer, Charles Tharnæs
The action begins one early summer morning in a hostel, where we see, among others Read More »
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) Benjamin Christensen, Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help Read More »
The Devil’s Circus (1926) Benjamin Christensen, Norma Shearer, Charles Emmett Mack, Carmel Myers
The action begins in 1913, where our hero Carl (Charles Emmett Mack) is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Read More »
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen
Part history lesson followed by re-enactments with actors, this film takes depicts the history of witchcraft Read More »
Mockery (1927) Benjamin Christensen, Lon Chaney, Barbara Bedford, Ricardo Cortez, Drama, Romance
One of the rare American films directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen, Mockery stars Lon Chaney Sr. as a half-witted Russian peasant. On the verge of starvation, Chaney is hired to guide a beautiful countess (Barbara Bedford) through the treacherous Siberian wastes. Once he arrives at the countess’ home territory, Chaney is swept up by the Bolshevik movement. He comes to despise the aristocracy in general and the countess in particular, but the young woman’s kindness towards him weakens his revolutionary resolve. Long thought lost, Mockery was rediscovered and preserved in the mid-1970s; the film was based on a story by Stig Esbern.
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