![]() ![]() Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring Jean-Luc Ponty (Dolby Digital 2. Newly conceived Geoff Smith soundtrack (Dolby Digital 2.0).Newly conceived Bronnt Industries Kapital soundtrack. ![]() Original Danish Premiere soundtrack (Dolby Digital 5.0) Häxan - Witchcraft Through the Ages 1922 DVD Benjamin Christensen (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD 92 ratings -5 £799 Was: £8.Digital speed-corrected transfer of the Swedish Film Institute’s tinted restoration.In this docudrama essay, Benjamin Christensen present the phenomenon of witchcraft, from medieval to modern. HAXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES (1922) All commentary below by Dustin Acton (2006). This release includes both the Burroughs-narrated shorted version and the original film for which two new scores have been created, one by composer Geoff Smith performed on hammered dulcimer and the second offering a dynamic score by UK electronic group, Bronnt Industries Kapital. One of these unique little gems of early cinema. 'The practice of witchcraft has plagued man on this planet since he first used words.' (William S. In 1968 the film won further praise and a whole new audience when it was re-released with a William Burroughs narration, under the title 'Witchcraft through the Ages'. HAXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES (1922) All commentary below by Dustin Acton (2006). Scandinavian filmmaker Benjamin Christensons 1922 documentary on the history of witchcraft, black magic and demonology. Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968), a seventy-six-minute version of Hxan narrated by author William S. Not until its re-release in 1941 did the director earn belated fame and respect, proof that this genre-defying documentary was far ahead of its time. Presenting historical documents and dramatizations of traditional beliefs, the film takes its viewers through a history of witchcraft from medieval pagan. Dramatising satanic activities and rituals including the ways in which suspected witches were tortured and killed, Häxan is a deliriously imaginative masterpiece. Since its premiere in 1922, Benjamin Christensen's exploration of the role of superstition in medieval minds has caused outrage and protest from both the general public and religious groups. ![]()
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