Benjamin Christensen HAXAN WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES Collection of 15 #151342

Description

Haxan [Witchcraft Through the Ages] (Collection of 15 original photographs from the 1922 silent film)
Author:
Benjamin Christensen (director, screenwriter, starring); Clara Pontoppidan, Oscar Stribolt, Astrid Holm, Maren Pedersen (starring)
Title:
Haxan [Witchcraft Through the Ages] (Collection of 15 original photographs from the 1922 silent film)
Publication:
N.p. N.p., Circa 1922
Description:
Collection of 15 vintage reference photographs from the 1922 Scandinavian silent film.
From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.
A documentary-style horror anthology film charting the history of witchcraft in the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century, intersected with dramatized horror segments loosely based on the Malleus Maleficarum, a fifteenth century German guide for religious inquisitors. The most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made, banned in the US and heavily censored in other countries for its graphic sexual and violent content.
10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine.
Criterion Collection 134. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema.
Seller ID:
151342
Subject:
1920s Cinema, European Cinema, Film Still Photographs, Horror, Magic, Photographs, Religion and Spirituality, Silent Film
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