Häxan
Benjamin Christensen
SE,
1922,
105 min
Cast
Benjamin Christensen, Ella La Cour, Emmy Schønfeld
Spoken language
None
Subtitles
English intertitles
Grave robbery, torture, possessed nuns and a satanic Sabbath: the legendary HÄXAN by Benjamin Christensen uses a series of dramatic narratives to research the scientific hypothesis that witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as the psychiatric patients at the beginning of the twentieth century. But the film is far from serious; it’s rather a witches’ brew of the scary, disgusting and darkly humorous.
In collaboration with University of Antwerp.
