Haxan is a study about how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts. The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatized sequences that are comparable to horror films.
Maren Pedersen | Heksen | |
Clara Pontoppidan | Nonne | |
Elith Pio | Heksedommer | |
Oscar Stribolt | Graabroder | |
Tora Teje | En hysterisk kvinde | |
John Andersen | Chief Inquisitor | |
Benjamin Christensen | Djævlen | |
Poul Reumert | Juveler | |
Karen Winther | Anna's Sister | |
Kate Fabian | Gammel jomfru | |
Else Vermehren | Nonne | |
Astrid Holm | Anna | |
Johannes Andersen | Heksedommer | |
Gerda Madsen | Nonne | |
Aage Hertel | Heksedommer | |
Ib Schønberg | Heksedommer | |
Emmy Schønfeld | Marie / the Seamstress | |
Frederik Christensen | Borger | |
Ella La Cour | Troldkvinde | |
Elisabeth Christensen | En ældre bondekone | |
Henry Seemann | Borger | |
Alice O'Fredericks | Nonne | |
Knud Rassow | Anatomen | |
William S. Burroughs | Narrator (1968 re-release) | |
Ellen Rassow | En tjenestepige |
Director | Benjamin Christensen | |
Writer | Benjamin Christensen | |
Musician | Matti Bye, Launy Grøndahl, Daniel Humair, Barði Jóhannsson, Emil Reesen, Ludwig van Beethoven, Art Zoyd | |
Photography | Johan Ankerstjerne |