Benjamin Christensen

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to ...

There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young ...

In Leck Fisher’s theater play the parents of a possible new father arranges the expected baby to be aborted. Not so in the film version by ...

On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among ...

In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his ...

One modern critic termed this classic of the Danish silent screen, “a bad story translated into moving pictures with a visual energy that ...

A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before ...

A 1968 collaboration between jazz musician Daniel Humair and beat author William S. Burroughs that recuts and reinterprets the 1922 silent film ...

A simple-minded circus strongman, John Sikes, has been wrongly accused of a crime committed by Wilken. On the run with his infant son, he enters ...