Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

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Original title: Häxan
Year: 1922
Running time: 105 min.
Country: Denmark
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Screenwriter: Benjamin Christensen
Music: (Incidental music: Launy Grøndahl, Emil Reesen) (Silent Movie)
Cinematography: Johan Ankerstjerne (B&W)
Cast: Documentary, (Self: Elisabeth Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winther, Maren Pedersen, Ella La Cour, Emmy Schönfeld, Kate Fabian, Oscar Stribolt, Benjamin Christensen)
Producer: Co-production Denmark-Sweden;
Aljosha Production Company, Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
Genre: Documentary. Horror | Silent Film. Witchcraft. Middle Ages
Synopsis / Plot: A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, witchcraft and witch-hunts. Finally the film compares the behavior of hysteria of contemporary (1921) women with the behavior of the witches in the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.

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