Häxan
MASTER: MOVIE
- Title
- Häxan
- Other titles
- Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, La stregoneria attraverso i secoli, Witchcraft Through the Ages, The Witches, Hexen Die Hexe, Heksen, O Axan, La brujería a través de los tiempos, Hekserij
- Type
- MASTER — Movie
- Genres
-
Documentary , Fantasy , Horror
- Subgenres
- Muto
- Year
- 1922
- Countries
- Denmark, Sweden
- Languages
- Danese, Svedese
- Direction
- Cast
-
Benjamin Christensen , Elisabeth Christensen , Maren Pedersen , Clara Pontoppidan ,
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Elith Pio , Oscar Stribolt , Tora Teje , John Andersen , Poul Reumert , Karen Winther , Kate Fabian , Else Vermehren , Astrid Holm , Johannes Andersen , Gerda Madsen , Aage Hertel , Ib Schønberg , Emmy Schønfeld , Albrecht Schmidt , Frederik Christensen - Screenplay
- Benjamin Christensen
- Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Matti Bye, Launy Grøndahl, Daniel Humair, Barði Jóhannsson, Emil Reesen, Art Zoyd, Mauro Lanza, Ghédalia Tazartès
- Production
- Svensk Filmindustri (SF), Aljosha Production Company
- Black & white
- Yes
- Adults only
- No
Information
Description
Il film è stato oggetto di diverse sonorizzazioni, in particolare dei musicisti Mauro Lanza e Ghédalia Tazartès.
Music by:
Matti Bye (restored version: 2006),
Launy Grøndahl,
Daniel Humair (1968),
Barði Jóhannsson (as Bardi Johannsson) (new score 2006),
Emil Reesen (1941),
Ludwig van Beethoven (as Ludwig von Beethoven) (original score 1922),
Art Zoyd (1997).
Other versions: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968), the 76-minute version of Häxan, narrated by William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring Jean-Luc Ponty.
Re-released in 1941 in Denmark, with a filmed introduction by director Benjamin Christiensen, in which he explains the film. Though the reissued version does use some intertitles for the dramatic scenes, they use wording that is often very different from the intertitles of the original 1922 version.
Reissued in 1968 with a jazz score featuring Jean-Luc Ponty and narration by author William S. Burroughs.