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Häxan (Swedish: [ˈhɛ̂ksan], "The Witch"; Danish and Norwegian Bokmål: Heksen, "The Witch"; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen.
Jan 20, 2012 · Häxan, (English titles: Haxan, The Witches or Witchcraft Through The Ages) is a 1922 Swedish/Danish silent horror film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen.
Häxan: Directed by Benjamin Christensen. With Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt. Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
Part documentary essay, part horror mood board, Häxan is an episodic film, which across seven chapters explores a range of beliefs and themes throughout the Western history of occultism, in ...
Apr 29, 2024 · by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw April 29, 2024. Scenes of grave robbing, demonic possession, torture, and general salaciousness dominated 1922's Häxan, an early documentary that lives on more than a ...
92% Tomatometer 25 Reviews. 81% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings. A hybrid of documentary and fiction, this silent film explores the history of witchcraft, demonology and satanism. It shows ...
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New 2K digital restoration. Music from the 1922 Danish premiere, arranged by film-music specialist Gillian B. Anderson and performed by the Czech Film Orchestra in 2001, presented in 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio.
Häxan is the rare horror-infused narrative with an empathetic intent. The pages of the Maleficarum had provided artists, poets, and playwrights a compendium from which they could flesh out their depictions of witches—from the poetry and watercolors of William Blake and Shakespeare’s Macbeth to the fantastical paintings of Francisco Goya ...
Oct 20, 2022 · What witches do – and what’s done to suspected witches – is given sensational treatment in Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 silent film Häxan. A century later, it’s disturbing for even more reasons.
Häxan Directed by Benjamin Christensen • 1922 • Denmark Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-o...
