![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Officially banned outside of Sweden for decades due to graphic imagery and an unabashed anti-clerical theme, Häxan has grown into a cinema legend one hears about but rarely, if ever, gets a chance to actually see. Mabuse presented their stories as fiction, filmmaker Benjamin Christensen's Häxan appeared in the guise of a documentary, its very realism at the heart of its hypnotic allure and its scandalous notoriety. Mabuse took a near-supernatural journey to Berlin's criminal underworld, a film opened in Sweden that was to become notorious for its bold depictions of torture, madness, carnality, and most memorably horrific acts performed by and for bestial, nightmarish demons, including Satan himself. Witchcraft through the ages how to#What was it about 1922? In the same year Nosferatu showed the world how to make a vampire movie and Dr. Oscar Stribolt, Clara Pontoppidan, Else Vermehren,Īlice O'Fredericks, Johannes Andersen, and Ib Schønberg Written and directed by Benjamin Christensen Maren Pedersen, Benjamin Christensen, Ella La Cour,Įmmy Schonfeld, Kate Fabian, Benjamin Christensen, Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Criterion Collection Home Vision Entertainment Starring Elisabeth Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winther, The DVD Journal: Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Criterion Collection ![]()
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