Satan Triumphant
About Satan Triumphant
Pastor Talnox preaches against temptation and then falls to it. Satan comes into his house and pushes him toward theft and a spiritual collapse. Ivan Mozzhukhin plays both the pastor and the pastor's son Sandro. The surviving print is in two parts, and the ending of each part is missing.
Cast & crew
More about Satan Triumphant
Yakov Protazanov directed. Olga Blazhevich wrote it. Joseph N. Ermolieff produced it for Yermoliev. Fédote Bourgasoff, billed as Fyodor Burgasov, photographed it. It opened on 21 October 1917. The two surviving parts run 44 minutes 51 seconds and 42 minutes 21 seconds.
Themes
Making
Rolf Lindfors, then curator at the Swedish Film Archives, found the lost intertitles in the Swedish Film Censorship Archive, and those titles were put back.
Preservation
The film does not survive complete. The ending of each of the two episodes is missing. Intertitles recovered from the Swedish Film Censorship Archive were restored with the help of Rolf Lindfors.
Notes
- The Russian title is Satana likuyushchiy.
- Pavel Pavlov plays Pavel, a hunchbacked painter. Aleksandr Chabrov plays Satan. Natalya Lisenko plays Esther, Sandro's mother. Vera Orlova plays Inga.
- Mozzhukhin's double role makes Sandro the pastor's son.
- Sweden banned the film in 1919.
Scenes
- Talnox urges his congregation to resist temptation.
- Satan appears in the pastor's house.
