Häxan (1922)

19221h 46mdir. Benjamin ChristensenSwedishSweden, Denmarkhorror filmfantasy film

With Oscar Stribolt, Benjamin Christensen, Alice O'Fredericks, Poul Reumert, Tora Teje, Gerda Madsen, Ib Schønberg, Astrid Holm

Directed by Benjamin Christensen

Häxan (Swedish: [ˈhɛ̂ksan], The Witch; Heksen Danish: [hɛksən], The Witch; English: The Witches; released in the US in 1968 as Witchcraft Through the Ages) is a 1922 Swedish-Danish silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Consisting partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized narrative sequences, the film purports to chart the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan proposes that such witch-hunts may have stemmed from misunderstandings of mental or neuro

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