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Haxan - Witchcraft through the Ages [Subtitled]

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Released: 2001-10-16

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Haxan - Witchcraft through the Ages... DVD Cast & Features Cast:
William S. Burroughs, Gerda Madsen, Elith Pio, Tora Teje, Clara Pontoppidan, Benjamin Christensen, Benjamin Christensen, Astrid Holm, Oscar Stribolt, Maren Pedersen

Director(s): Benjamin Christensen

Features:
New digital, speed-corrected transfer of the Swedish Film Institute's 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 Christensen's introduction to the 1941 re-release
A short selection of outtakes
Bibliothèque Diabolique, a photographic exploration of Christensen's historical sources
Stills gallery
New English translation of intertitles
"Witchcraft Through the Ages [1968]: the 76-minute version of Häxan, narrated by William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring Jean-Luc Ponty
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

Haxan - Witchcraft through the Ages... DVD Details

Video:
Pre-1954 Standard
Audio:
5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects
PCM stereo
Language:
English
Subtitles:
English

Running Time: 104
Genre: Foreign Film [dub Or Subtitle]
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 037429161722
Product Code: CRRNHAX010DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1922
Studio: Criterion

Haxan - Witchcraft through the Ages... DVD Summary Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen's obsession with bizarre lighting effects reached its apotheosis with his 1920 masterpiece Häxan.

Beginning in a deceptively sedate fashion with a series of woodcuts and engravings (a technique later adopted by RKO producer Val Lewton), the film then shifts into gear with a progression of dramatic vignettes, illustrating the awesome power of witchcraft in the Middle Ages.

So powerful are some of these images that even some modern viewers will avert their eyes from the screen.

Though obviously a work of pure imagination, the film occasionally takes on the dimensions of a documentary, a byproduct of the extensive research done by Christensen before embarking on the project (incidentally, the director himself can be seen in the film in a dual role as Satan and the Doctor).

Häxan marked a parting of the ways for Christensen and the Danish film industry; thereafter, he confined his activities to the German cinema, before answering Hollywood's call in 1928.

A separate version of this film exists, with a shorter running time, retitled Witchcraft Through the Ages and released in 1968.

It features narration by the legendary Beat writer William S.

Burroughs (Naked Lunch) and a score by Jean-Luc Ponty.