Witchcraft Through the Ages
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1922 by Svensk filmindustri.
Special features: New digital, speed-corrected transfer-tinted restored ; music from the original Danish premiere ; commentary by Danish silent film scholar Casper Tybjerg ; Benjamin Christensen's introduction to the 1941 re-release ; a short selection of outtakes ; "Bibliothèque Diabolique": a photographic exploration of Christensen's historical sources ; stills gallery ; Witchcraft through the ages : 76 minute version of Häxan, narrated by William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring Jean-Luc Ponty.
Häxan (104 min.) -- Witchcraft through the ages (76 min.).
Benjamin Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winter, Maren Pedersen, Wilhelmine Henriksen, Kate Fabian, Oscar Stribolt, Clara Pontoppidan, Alice O'Fredericks, Johannes Andersen, Tora Teje, Poul Reumert.
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous.
DVD.
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SERIES
Criterion collection
134.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Silent with Swedish intertitles, English subtitles.
PUBLISHED
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2001.
Year Published: 2001
Description: 1 videodisc (179 min.) : sd., col. (restored tinting) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0780024583
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Christensen, Benjamin, 1879-1959.
Svensk filmindustri.
Janus Films.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Witches -- Drama.
Witchcraft -- Drama.
Mental illness -- Public opinion -- Europe -- Drama.
Silent films.
Horror films.
Feature films.
Horror films.
Foreign films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.