Benjamin Christensen
Birthday: 1879-09-29 Place of Birth: Viborg, Denmark
Synopsis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Christensen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Häxan
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
