- 76%
- 92%
- 80%
- Type
- Film
- Status
- Released
- Release
- September 18, 1922 (102 years ago)
- Alias
- The Witches
- Language
- Swedish
- Origin
- Sweden
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
Benjamin ChristensenDevil
Ella La CourKarna, Sorceress
Emmy SchønfeldKarna's Assistant
Kate FabianOld Maid
Oscar StriboltFat Monk
Wilhelmine HenriksenApelone, a Poor Old Woman
Elisabeth ChristensenAnna's Mother
Astrid HolmAnna
Karen WintherAnna's Sister
Maren PedersenMaria the Weaver, a Witch
Johannes AndersenPater Henrik, Witch Judge
Elith PioJohannes, Witch Judge
Aage HertelWitch Judge
Ib SchønbergWitch Judge
Holst JørgensenPeter Titta
Clara PontoppidanSister Cecilia, Nun
Else VermehrenFlagellating Nun
Alice O'FredericksNun
Gerda MadsenNun
Karina BellNun
Tora TejeModern Hysteric and Kleptomaniac
Poul ReumertJeweler
H.C. NielsenJeweler's Assistant
Albrecht SchmidtPsychiatrist
Knud RassowAnatomist
Ellen RassowMaid
Frederik ChristensenCitizen
Henry SeemannCitizen
Karen CaspersenUnidentified
Holger PedersenUnidentified
John AndersenChief Inquisitor
Swedish and Danish pictures easily hold the palm for morbid realism and in many cases for brilliant acting and production. Witchcraft made by [Danish director] Benjamin Christensen [funded by a Swedish production company], leaves all the others beaten. It is in reality a pictorial history of black magic, of witches, of the Inquisition, and the thousand and one inhumanities of the superstition-ridden Middle Ages. Many of its scenes are unadulterated horror.
A weird and rather wonderful brew of fiction, documentary and animation based on 15th and 16th century witchcraft trials, Christensen's film has a remarkable vi
Beneath all the horror, torture, and violence in these films, you’ll find a cry for revolt against various forms of inhumanity.
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