Budget
SEK 2,000,000 (estimated)
Häxan
" Witch " (Witch sorceress) is a horror film directed by Danish director Benjamin Christensen and starring Maren Pedersen and Clara Pontoppidan. It was released on September 18, 1922.
" Witch " is a quasi documentary about religious witchcraft , ranking 39th among the top 50 documentaries in the world.
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- Release date May 27, 1929
- Filming locations Copenhagen, Denmark
- Production companies Aljosha Production Company, Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
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By Darrion 2022-12-17 01:42:48
The story of the movie part 10
May 10, 2018
Witch
Häxan (1922)
Benjamin Christensen
The history of film is a flowing history. It is constantly changing. It is not the soil that is washed to the shore by the ocean tide and dried and solidified. On the contrary, it outputs a steady stream of power, which is the surging waves themselves.
Just like in 15...
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By Carmella 2022-12-01 01:49:29
This is a "mixed movie", you can call it a documentary, a feature film, a horror film, or even a "video essay". Anyway, it can catch up with the above.
Judging from its era, the special effects scenes in the film are quite shocking. (For example, a scene where "witches" and "devils" "revel" in the forest).
However, what is interesting is that just because the "world of the devil and witch" is so "realistic", the film itself, which wants to promote "atheism", seems a bit... -
By Ruth 2022-11-27 05:48:57
Red world
Blue hell
Scary is not the devil
Terrible is ignorance
It's the human heart
There is no hell
Hell is on earth
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I don’t want to write anymore, I have to write, I don’t want to write, I have...
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By Salma 2022-11-14 12:38:33
Wonderful and rich silent film
Quite a wonderful and rich silent film. The whole film is composed of 7 chapters. It is very detailed and uses various methods to tell the origin of the witch or the location of the folks or the different weird phenomena that emerged afterwards. It also includes the barbarism of ignorance. Prejudice and social and religious criticism at the time, many directors’ ideas have been put into it, so it is difficult to become a qualified documentary, but the whole film is full of weird evils, dark...
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By Garett 2022-08-16 20:44:03
Transfer from NGA Introduction
One of the most fascinating works in the history of cinema is Christensen's visually stunning study of witchcraft, a blend of fictionalized vignettes and nonfiction texts exploring medieval sorcery practice. Frequently evoking paintings by Bosch, Häxan conveys a sense of dark emotion let loose on a naive world. Accompanied by a live performance of the original 1922 musical score under the direction of Gillian B. Anderson. (Benjamin Christensen, 1922, 35 mm, Danish and Swedish with soft-titles,...
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By Anthony 2023-09-15 10:37:39
The avant-garde values are more amazing than the avant-garde special effects scenes. The opening documentary method popularized the historical origin of the mysterious phenomenon of witches to the audience, and then the feature film method told the story of a small town trial of witches, and finally The director only explained his point of view. The disabled and the mentally ill often fall victim to the narrow cognition of human beings. Lack of tolerance is the root of the witch...
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By Vergie 2023-09-14 11:36:04
Religious science film, medieval Europe was so keen on surreal ideas, and the cruel methods were enough to rank among the top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty. I don’t know how much Dreyer’s Day of Revenge borrowed from this film. In music creation, the first is experimental, playful and lively, while the latter borrows a lot from classical...
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By Caitlyn 2023-09-13 04:30:07
The persecution of so-called witchcraft in the Middle World is a half-fiction, half-documentary. Some of the torture was...
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By Melissa 2023-09-11 17:06:13
Jia Zhangke should watch this film before making Twenty-Four...
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By Maiya 2023-09-07 05:54:37
Fear stems from ignorance. The persecution of so-called witches in the Middle Ages was precisely due to people's ignorance of the natural world. On the other hand, the absolute dominance of Christianity and its doctrine of worship of one god became an important reason for the persecution of pagans. In the film, we can also see Foucault's discipline and punishment. Power is always closely combined with punishment methods and penetrates into all aspects of social life and internalizes them as...
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Title Card: Poor little hysterical witch! In the middle ages you were in conflict with the church. Now it is with the law.
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Title Card: Centuries have passed and the Almighty of medieval times no longer sits in his tenth sphere.
Title Card: We no longer sit in church staring terrified at the frescoes of the devils.
Title Card: The witch no longer flies away on her broom over the rooftops.
Title Card: But isn't superstition still rampant among us?
Title Card: Is there an obvious difference between the sorceress and her customer then and now?
Title Card: We no longer burn our old and poor. But do they not often suffer bitterly?
Title Card: And the little woman, whom we call hysterical, alone and unhappy, isn't she still a riddle for us?
Title Card: Nowadays we detain the unhappy in a mental institution or - if she is wealthy - in a modern clinic.
Title Card: And then we will console ourselves with the notion that the mildly temperate shower of the clinic has replaced the barbaric methods of medieval times.
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Lovelorn Woman: Karna, can you perchance get me a love potion that has power over a pious man of the church?
Karna - the Witch: Here, young maiden, take a potion of cat feces and dove hearts, boiled during the full moon. A drop of this in a man's drink will soften his heart at once.
Lovelorn Woman: Karna, can i have an even stronger potion?
Karna - the Witch: If the maiden wishes to drive the man out of his wits for love... I have a potion boiled in May from a young and playful male sparrow. Hold your coins, maiden! First smell my ointment! This ointment is good, should you wish to travel to Brocken one night. Secretly smear this ointment on and the pious monk might come directly to your chamber. You will then fly high up in the night air together and he will bestow upon you many hungry kisses.
