The Witches (1922)
Original title: Häxan
But isn’t superstition still rampant among us?
- Genre: Documentary · Horror · History
- Country: Sweden
- Runtime: 105 min
- Released: 1922-09-18
- TMDB rating: 7.6 / 10 (461)
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.
- Director: Benjamin Christensen
- Writer: Benjamin Christensen
- Music: Launy Grøndahl
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Benjamin Christensen (1879-1959) was a Danish film director, screenwriter and actor, one of the key figures of early Scandinavian cinema. He is best known for Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922), a film that blended documentary-style use of historical sources with horror and surreal imagery. He later worked in H…
Astrid Holm was a Danish silent-film actress best known for her role in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan (1922), playing one of the women accused of witchcraft. She appeared in several other Danish productions of the 1920s and 1930s, and her presence remains one of the striking images of this genre-defying film.
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