Shades of the master: Benjamin Christensen

Document author(s):

Arne Lunde

Document source:

Pacific Film Archive

Publication date:

1999

Document language:

English

Document type:

program note

Number of pages:

5

Document name subject:

Benjamin Christensen

Document contains:

bibliography and box info

Related films:

• Det hemmelighedsfulde X (The mysterious X) — Christensen, Benjamin — Denmark — 1914
• Haevnens nat (Night of revenge) — Christensen, Benjamin — Denmark — 1916
• Häxan (Witch) — Christensen, Benjamin — Sweden — 1922
• Seine frau, die unbekannte (His wife, the unknown) — Christensen, Benjamin — Germany — 1923
• The Devil's circus — Christensen, Benjamin — United States — 1926
• Mockery — Christensen, Benjamin — United States — 1927
• Seven footprints to Satan — Christensen, Benjamin — United States — 1929
• Skilsmissens børn (Children of divorce) — Christensen, Benjamin — Denmark — 1939
• Barnet (The child) — Christensen, Benjamin — Denmark — 1940
• Gaa med mig hjem (Come home with me) — Christensen, Benjamin — Denmark — 1941

Film country(ies):

Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and United States

Film language(s):

Danish, English, German, and Swedish

Film production company:

Benjamin Christensen Film, Dansk Biograf Kompagni, Decla Company, First National Pictures, Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Nordisk Films Kompagni A/S, and Svensk Filmindustri

Film genre(s):

Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Espionage, Feature, Historical, Horror, Melodrama, Mystery, Romance, and Thriller

Film subject(s):

• Abortion -- Denmark -- Drama
• Aerialists -- Drama
• Blind -- Drama
• Circus performers -- Drama
• Cults -- Drama
• Demoniac possession -- Drama
• Devil -- Drama
• Espionage -- Denmark -- Drama
• Ex-convicts -- Denmark -- Drama
• Family life -- Denmark -- Drama
• Father and child -- Denmark -- Drama
• Fathers and daughters -- Denmark -- Drama
• Hysteria (Social psychology)
• Hysteria (Social psychology) -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Marriage -- Drama
• Mistaken identity -- Drama
• Peasantry -- Soviet Union -- Drama
• Practical jokes -- Drama
• Pregnancy, Unwanted -- Denmark -- Drama
• Revenge -- Drama
• Satanism -- Drama
• Satanism -- History
• Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Drama
• Teenagers -- Denmark -- Drama
• Treason -- Denmark -- Drama
• Witchcraft -- Europe -- Drama
• Witchcraft -- Europe -- History
• Witches -- Drama
• Women -- Psychology

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