Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
1922 · Silent film · 104 min
Synopsis
Benjamin Christensen's part documentary, part dramatization of witchcraft. It opens with an illustrated lecture on historical beliefs about witches, stages medieval scenes of accusation, torture and a witches' sabbath, and closes by likening accused witches to the mentally ill of the 1920s. Christensen himself plays the Devil.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 104 minutes
- Internet Archive item
- haxan-witchcraft-through-the-ages-1922
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- HAXAN (1922)