Michael Curtiz's lost silent devil makes you sign contracts you can't read.
The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good.
Direction
Curtiz before Casablanca, already obsessed with shadows.
Production
Lost for decades; surviving fragments feel stolen from time.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nearly all prints were destroyed; what survives is a 9-minute fragment discovered in a Hungarian archive in 2016.
Curtiz made four 'devil' films in Hungary before fleeing to Hollywood—this obsession with moral rot followed him to Mildred Pierce.
HU
