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.

Credits

Carl Theodor DreyerDirector

Helge NissenSatan / The Grand Inquisitor / Erneste / Ivan

Halvard HoffJesus (first sequence)

Jacob TexiereJudas (first sequence) (as Jacob Texière)

Hallander HellemanDon Gomez de Castro (second sequence)