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Häxan (1922) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1922 · 105 mins
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- Starring
- John Andersen, Elith Pio, Poul Reumert, Oscar Stribolt, Aage Hertel, Holger Pedersen
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns and a satanic Sabbath introduce Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 classic, which stitches vivid vignettes together to suggest that medieval witch hysteria was akin to the delusions diagnosed in early‑20th‑century psychiatry. The film never takes itself seriously, mixing grotesque scares, macabre humor and striking visual tableau.
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