Benjamin Christensen

Benjamin Christensen

Date of Birth: 28 Sep 1879

Country: Denmark

Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 11 (Director), 10 (Writer)

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    Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
    A documentary about the history of witchcraft, told in a variety of styles, from illustrated slideshow to dramatised events of alleged real-life events, right up to the early twentieth century (when the film was made). Depending on which version you're watching, the commentary is either in the form of intertitles or narration by William S.Burroughs, recorded in the mid-1960s. (imdb)
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    Hemmelighedsfulde X, Det
    According to contemporary reports, the film was quite similar to the Danish Sherlock Holmes series then in production. The story was chock full of false accusations, mistaken identities, secret papers, and furtive romance. Every melodramatic trick in the book was trotted out to sustain audience interest throughout the film's six reels. (All Movie Guide)
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    Blind Justice
    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 an affluent house and seeks help from Ann, but is taken captive and imprisoned. Fourteen years pass. Ann has married Dr. Richard West. John, a broken man, is released early for good behaviour. He goes to find his son Robert at the orphanage, but the boy was adopted years before. (imdb)
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    Mockery
    A peasant saves a countess during the Russian Revolution. (TCM.com)
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    Seven Footprints to Satan
    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 his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan. (imdb)
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    The Devil\
    The action begins in 1913, where our hero Carl (Charles Emmett Mack) is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, however, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan (played by Norma Shearer, with her future screen persona already intact), prompting a romance and a reevaluation. (moviemartyr.com)
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    The Mysterious Island
    A scientist builds an underwater ship to search for a legendary race of fish men. (TCM.com)
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    House of Horror
    Bachelor Chester and his spinster sister, Louise, are summoned from Ohio by a "mystery man" who instructs them to visit their Uncle Abner in New York City. A miserly recluse, Abner lives in an old house where he has gathered a strange collection of people: Brown and his wife Gladys; two untrustworthy servants; the mystery man; and Thelma and Joe, two young people on the track of a missing diamond owned by Abner. (TCM)
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    Skilsmissens børn
    It begins in a villa in Frederiksberg, Vibeke is a 15 year old schoolgirl daughter of the mother-in-law of Professor Dreyer. He is divorced from her mother and has a little child with his other wife Maggi . But the troubled temper of the professor prevents him from falling into marriage, and a connection with the cabaret singer Britta Borch gives rise to a battle between husband and wife.
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    Seine Frau, die Unbekannte
    A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in order to return to his service under a different name. Only when the painter falls in love with her as a stranger to him, she reveal herself.
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    Barnet
    The action begins one early summer morning in a hostel, where we see, among others, two young girls, a law student, Ruth, and a small office lady, Ilse. From their conversation, we understand that Ilse has a very bourgeois outlook on life. By chance, these two girls come across one of Ruth's fellow students, Pontus Berthelsen, who is spending the summer holidays in a fishermans cabin. Ilse, who has little world experience, quickly takes an interest in Pontus, who possesses a lot of innate charm.
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