“Although Dekeukeleire’s fourth film is often called Flamme blanche, its actual title is in Flemish, Witte vlam.
Based on a theme by Flemish playwright Herman Teirlinck, The Evil Eye is a story of a peasant village haunted by a villager rejected by society now returned to take his revenge and find his beloved.
“Dekeukeleire’s Thèmes d’inspiration (1938) compared portraits of Old and Modern Masters with footage of real people to demonstrate ‘that throughout the ages the soul of the people had not been changed’.