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Alone with the Devil

1914 · 42 min Drama
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

The manufacturer Laroque stops at nothing when trying to destroy his enemies, and this time Fréderic Nessières, one of his competitors, is in the line of fire. With his diabolical, hypnotic power, Laroque has snared Nessières’s wife, Madeleine, in his evil web, and she will now do anything to help her husband’s enemy. But even though Laroque’s first plan to ruin Nessières fails, he does not give up. Once he has selected a victim, he will quite literally fight to the death to vanquish them. (stumfilm.dk)

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Original Title Expressens Mysterium
Year 1914
Country Denmark
Genre Drama
Director Hjalmar Davidsen
Runtime 42 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (1 votes)

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The 1914 film constructs its drama through the stark contrast of silent-era aesthetics and a near-gothic obsession with psychological control. It relies on the power of the gaze and actorly physicality to explore hypnosis as a metaphor for absolute power.

What lingers after viewing is the haunting atmosphere of a archaic yet captivating world where evil operates through suggestion, not force, and moral lines are dangerously blurred. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Hjalmar Davidsen

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In subdued lighting, with quiet musical accompaniment, to fully absorb the era's atmosphere.

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