
Night and Fog(1956)
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.


“But isn’t superstition still rampant among us?”
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's 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 serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

Benjamin Christensen
Devil

Ella La Cour
Karna / Sorceress
Emmy Schønfeld
Karna's Assistant

Kate Fabian
Old Maid

Oscar Stribolt
Fat Monk
Wilhelmine Henriksen
Apelone / A Poor Old Woman
Elisabeth Christensen
Anna's Mother

Astrid Holm
Anna

Karen Winther
Anna's Sister
Maren Pedersen
Maria the Weaver / A Witch
Häxan is a documentary, horror, history film released in 1922 exploring themes of witch, superstition, insanity, mystic, sorcery, hysteria. Directed by Benjamin Christensen, it stars Benjamin Christensen, Ella La Cour, Emmy Schønfeld. Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's 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 serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
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