Film
Leaves from Satan's Book
Denmark- Director
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Year
- 1920
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.
Top cast
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)
Vilhelm Petersen
Fouquier-Tinville (third sequence)
Clara Pontoppidan
Siri (fourth sequence)
Carlo Wieth
Paavo (fourth sequence)
Directed by
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Written by
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Edgar Høyer