Tuesday, October 4, 2011

"Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages" (1922 SIlent Film)

This is a public domain film, silent movie made in 1922

The writer and director Benjamin Christensen discloses a historical view of the witches through the seven parts of this silent movie.

First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, with the witchcraft and the witch-hunts.

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