Benjamin Christensen
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"While in Berlin in 1914 a fateful event occurred - [ Benjamin Christensen ] stumbled upon a copy of a book called Malleus Maleficarum [...] On that same trip he passed through Paris where he found a copy of La sorcière by Jules Michelet, a study of witchcraft and the phenomenon of the persecutions. "After reading these two books," he would later note, "I was seized by the intensely dramatic power of the material [...] it was clear to me that I had finally found a subject."--Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Story of Haxan, the World's Strangest Film, and the Man Who Made It (2007) by Jack Stevenson |
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Benjamin Christensen (28 September 1879 – 2 April 1959) was a Danish film director, screenwriter and an actor both in film and on the stage. As a director he is most well known for the 1922 film Häxan and as an actor, he is best known for his performance in the film Michael (1924), in which he plays Claude Zoret, the jilted lover of the film's title character.
