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1.	El Espiritu De La Colmena	1973
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7.	Rashômon	1951
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9.	The Rules Of The Game	1939
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16.	The 39 Steps	1935
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18.	Umberto D.	1952
19.	Virgin Spring	1960
20.	Viridiana	1961
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22.	White Sheik	1952
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37.	Floating Weeds	1959
38.	Forbidden Games	1952
39.	Alexander Nevsky	1938
40.	Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages	1922
41.	Ikiru	1952
42.	The Importance Of Being Earnest	1952
43.	Ivan The Terrible: Part 2	1958
44.	Le Jour Se Lève	1939
45.	Jules Et Jim	1962
46.	Kind Hearts And Coronets	1949
47.	Knife In The Water	1962
48.	The Lady Vanishes	1938
49.	Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp	1943
50.	Loves Of A Blonde	1965
51.	M	1931
52.	The 400 Blows	1959

Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages

Criterion/Voyager (Aug 18, 1922)

Documentary | Horror | Silent

Denmark | English | Black & White | 01:27

7.6

16,894

1 disc

Region 1

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.

Cast View all

	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

Crew View all

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