Haxan (1922)
1922 · Silent film · 105 min · dir. Benjamin Christensen
But isn’t superstition still rampant among us?
- Documentary
- Horror
- History
Synopsis
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-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Benjamin Christensen
- Writer
- Benjamin Christensen
- Composer
- Launy Grøndahl
- Cinematography
- Johan Ankerstjerne
- Studio
- Aljosha Production Company, SF Studios
- Released
- 1922-09-18
- Running time
- 105 minutes
- Language
- Swedish
- Internet Archive item
- haxan-pnm
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- black
- white
- public
- domain
- silent
- witchcraft
- occult
Cast & crew
Benjamin Christensen Director- Benjamin Christensen
Ella La Cour- Emmy Schønfeld
Kate Fabian
Oscar Stribolt- Wilhelmine Henriksen
- Elisabeth Christensen
Astrid Holm
