Häxan : witchcraft through the ages / director Benjamin Christensen. [Recurso electrónico - Película]

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: Swedish Series: The Criterion Collection ; 134.Publisher: Dinamarca : The Criterion Collection, 1922Description: 1 DVD (104 min.) : son., col. ; 4 3/4 plg. + 1 bookletOther title:
  • Haxan
  • La brujería a travéz de los tiempos
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • C47 H39 1922
Contents:
Special features: Häxan (1922), a new digital, speed-corrected transfer of the Swedish Film Institutes tinted restoration -- music from the original Danish premiere, arranged by film music specialist Gillian Anderson and performed by the Czech Film Orchestra, presented in Dolby Digital 5.0 -- commentary by Danish silent film scholar Casper Tybjerg -- Benjamin Christensens introduction to the 1941 rerelease --a short selection of outtakes -- Bibliothèque Diabolique: a photographic exploration of Christensens historical sources -- stills gallery -- Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968), the 76-minute version of Häxan, narrated by William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring Jean-Luc Ponty -- optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
Production credits:
  • Photography, Johan Ankerstjerne; editor, Edla Hansen; set decoration, Richard Louw; director, screenplay, and actor, Benjamin Christensen.
Cast: Benjamin Christensen (The devil), Astrid Holm (The scribe's wife, Anna), Karen Winther (Anna's sister), Maren Pedersen (Maria the weaver, a witch), Wilhelmine Henriksen (Apelone, a poor old woman), Kate Fabian (Old maid), Oscar Stribolt (Friar), Clara Pontoppidan (Sister Cecilia, a nun), Alice O'Fredericks (Nun), Johannes Andersen (Father Henrik, witch judge), Elith Pio (Johannes, witch judge), Aage Hertel (Witch judge), Ib Schönberg (Witch judge).Summary: Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensens legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from seriousinstead its a witches brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
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DVD Mediateca 00003 C47 H39 1922 Ej. 2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AV0835
DVD Mediateca 00003 C47 H39 1922 Ej. 1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AV0215

Special features: Häxan (1922), a new digital, speed-corrected transfer of the Swedish Film Institutes tinted restoration -- music from the original Danish premiere, arranged by film music specialist Gillian Anderson and performed by the Czech Film Orchestra, presented in Dolby Digital 5.0 -- commentary by Danish silent film scholar Casper Tybjerg -- Benjamin Christensens introduction to the 1941 rerelease --a short selection of outtakes -- Bibliothèque Diabolique: a photographic exploration of Christensens historical sources -- stills gallery -- Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968), the 76-minute version of Häxan, narrated by William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring Jean-Luc Ponty -- optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

Photography, Johan Ankerstjerne; editor, Edla Hansen; set decoration, Richard Louw; director, screenplay, and actor, Benjamin Christensen.

Benjamin Christensen (The devil), Astrid Holm (The scribe's wife, Anna), Karen Winther (Anna's sister), Maren Pedersen (Maria the weaver, a witch), Wilhelmine Henriksen (Apelone, a poor old woman), Kate Fabian (Old maid), Oscar Stribolt (Friar), Clara Pontoppidan (Sister Cecilia, a nun), Alice O'Fredericks (Nun), Johannes Andersen (Father Henrik, witch judge), Elith Pio (Johannes, witch judge), Aage Hertel (Witch judge), Ib Schönberg (Witch judge).

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensens legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from seriousinstead its a witches brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

DVD, Dolby digital, región 1

Audio en sueco con subtítulos en inglés.

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