
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. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall.

Iván Siklósi, Ferenc Molnár
Hungary

A canvas of candlelit arrogance There are films that announce their monsters with thunderclaps; then there is Az ördög, whose monster arrives through the rustle of evening gloves across a museum railing. Director Mihály Kertész (later Hollywood’s Michael Curtiz) understood that true malevolence never barges—it murmu...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz
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" A canvas of candlelit arrogance There are films that announce their monsters with thunderclaps; then there is Az ördög, whose monster arrives through the rustle of evening gloves across a museum railing. Director Mihály Kertész (later Hollywood’s Michael Curtiz) understood that true malevolence never barges—it murmurs, it flatters, it offers a light for your cigarette before igniting your world. Shot in 1918 but suppressed by successive regimes, this Hungarian phantasmagoria now re-emerges li..."

