Overview - Häxan

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: Benjamin Christensen

  Character: Devil

  Popularity: 0.1624

  

• Name: Ella La Cour

  Character: Karna, Sorceress

  Popularity: 0.0655

  

• Name: Emmy Schønfeld

  Character: Karna's Assistant

  Popularity: 0.0894

  

• Name: Kate Fabian

  Character: Old Maid

  Popularity: 0.0759

  

• Name: Oscar Stribolt

  Character: Fat Monk

  Popularity: 0.0418

  

• Name: Wilhelmine Henriksen

  Character: Apelone, a Poor Old Woman

  Popularity: 0.07

  

• Name: Elisabeth Christensen

  Character: Anna's Mother

  Popularity: 0.0707

  

• Name: Astrid Holm

  Character: Anna

  Popularity: 0.0599