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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
Sweden
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Year
1922
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Genre
Horror
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Hekson Alternative
- Witches through the Ages Alternative
- La Sorcellerie a travers les ages Alternative
- La Strega Alternative
- De Tooverij door de eeuwen heen Alternative
- Sorcery Alternative
- Heksen Alternative
- Witchcraft through the Ages Alternative
- Die Hexe Alternative
Synopsis
Made in Sweden in 1918-1921 using contemporary engravings and illustrations, the film shows by means of dramatised vignettes, the processes of witch-hunting and brainwashing that are today still familiar.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Narrator (English 1960s version)
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Narrator (French 1960s version)
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Devil/the fashionable doctor
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Karna, the witch
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Karna's collaborator
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lovesick maiden
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the gluttonous monk
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Apelone, a poor woman
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Anna, bookprinter's wife's mother
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Anna, bookprinter's wife
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Anna's younger sister
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Maria, the witch
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Pater Henrik, chief inquisitor
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Johannes, the young inquisitor
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inquisitor
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inquisitor
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Peter Titta
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Rasmus Bödel
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Sister Cecilia, the nun
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self-torturing nun
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nun
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nun
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nun
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the hysteric in modern sequence
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jeweller
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jeweller's assistant
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psychiatrist
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anatomist
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servant girl
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commoner
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commoner
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woman
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woman
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man
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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Script Girl
Production:
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Production Company
Writing:
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Screenplay
Photography:
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Photography
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Assistant Photography
Editing:
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Editor
Design:
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Art Director
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Assistant Art Director
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Assistant Art Director
Music:
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Music (1941 version)
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Music (1960s version)
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