Every person who succumbs to temptation lands Satan with another 100 years exile according to Carl Theodor Dreyer's Leaves from Satan's Book, while those who resist shorten his sentence by 1000 years. Doesn't reflect well on us poor sinners that Old Nick is still amongst us, does it? The four examples of the trials under which humans are placed - from Judas's betrayal of Jesus to feuding neighbours during the Finnish Civil War of 1918 - are told with simplicity and deadly dull sobriety, with only the last sequence managing to stir any interest.
Review of Leaves From Satan's Book
