
Blade af Satans Bog
Carl Theodor Dreyer's ambitious early epic, inspired by D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, weaves four stories across history to dramatize Satan's recurring attempts to corrupt humanity. The segments span the betrayal of Christ, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution, and the Finnish Civil War of 1918, with Satan appearing in each as a figure who tempts ordinary people into acts of treachery and cruelty. Dreyer's visual imagination is already remarkably assured — the Inquisition sequence in particular has an intensity that anticipates his later masterpieces — and the film's theological seriousness marks it as unmistakably the work of the man who would create The Passion of Joan of Arc. An uneven but fascinating early work that reveals Dreyer's lifelong preoccupation with faith, suffering, and the human capacity for both evil and grace.
Carl Theodor Dreyer's ambitious early epic, inspired by D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, weaves four stories across history to dramatize Satan's recurring attempts to corrupt humanity. The segments span the betrayal of Christ, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution, and the Finnish Civil War of 1918, with Satan appearing in each as a figure who tempts ordinary people into acts of treachery and cruelty. Dreyer's visual imagination is already remarkably assured — the Inquisition sequence in particular has an intensity that anticipates his later masterpieces — and the film's theological seriousness marks it as unmistakably the work of the man who would create The Passion of Joan of Arc. An uneven but fascinating early work that reveals Dreyer's lifelong preoccupation with faith, suffering, and the human capacity for both evil and grace.
Helge Nissen
Satan / The Grand Inquisitor / Erneste / Ivan

Halvard Hoff
Jesus (first sequence)
Jacob Texiere
Judas (first sequence) (as Jacob Texière)
Hallander Helleman
Don Gomez de Castro (second sequence)
Ebon Strandin
Isabel - Castro's Daughter (second sequence)

Johannes Meyer
Don Fernandez (second sequence)
Nalle Halden
The Majordomo (second sequence)
Tenna Kraft
Marie Antoinette (third sequence)

Viggo Wiehe
Count de Chambord (third sequence)

Emma Wiehe
The Countess of Chambord (third sequence)
Jeanne Tramcourt
Lady Genevive de Chambord (third sequence)
Hugo Bruun
Count Manuel (third sequence)

Elith Pio
Joseph (third sequence)
Emil Helsengreen
The People's Commissar (third sequence)

Viggo Lindstrøm
Old Pitou (third sequence)