H?xan ; Witchcraft through the ages
(DVD) 

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Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, ©2001.
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (179 min.) : sd., col. (restored tinting) ; 4 3/4 in. 
Status
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual
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Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, ©2001.
Format
DVD
Edition
Full screen.
Language
zxx
UPC
037429161722

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Title from container.
General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1922 by Svensk filmindustri.
General Note
Special features: New digital, speed-corrected transfer-tinted restored ; music from the original Danish premiere ; commentary by Danish silent film scholar Casper Tybjerg ; Benjamin Christensen's introduction to the 1941 re-release ; a short selection of outtakes ; "Bibliotheque Diabolique": a photographic exploration of Christensen's historical sources ; stills gallery.
General Note
Special features of Witchcraft through the ages : 76 minute version of H?xan, narrated by William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring Jean-Luc Ponty ; optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer ed.
Creation/Production Credits
Cinematographer, Johan Ankerstjerne ; art director, Richard Louw ; editor, Edla Hansen ; music, Gillian Anderson.
Participants/Performers
Benjamin Christensen, Astrid Holm, Karen Winter, Maren Pedersen, Wilhelmine Henriksen, Kate Fabian, Oscar Stribolt, Clara Pontoppidan, Alice O'Fredericks, Johannes Andersen, Tora Teje, Poul Reumert.
Participants/Performers
Witchcraft through the ages: Narrated by William S. Burroughs.
Description
In a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that witches of the middle ages and turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients suffer from the same type of hysteria. Its a witches brew of the scary, the gross and the darkly humorous. Through painstaking research, this silent docu-drama attempts to reconstruct the practices of witchcraft and satanism from the 15th through the 17th centuries, concluding with cases of demoniac possession in the 1920s.
Target Audience
Not rated by MPAA.
System Details
DVD; Dolby digital 5.0 surround.
Language
H?xan: Silent with Swedish intertitles, optional English subtitles. Witchcraft through the ages: English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.

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