Directed by: Benjamin Christensen
Featuring: Benjamin Christensen
Year: 1922 | 1968
Time: 104 | 76 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 134
Licensor
Svensk Filmindustri
Release Date: Tuesday, 16 October 2001
MSRP: $39.95
DVD
1 Disc
1.33:1
1.33:1
Musical Score Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0
Musical Score Dolby Digital Surround 5.0
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region 1/2/3/4/5/6
Music from the original Danish premiere, arranged by film music specialist Gillian Anderson and performed by the Czech Film Orchestra, presented in Dolby Digital 5.0
Commentary by Danish silent film scholar Casper Tybjerg
A short selection of outtakes
Bibliothèque diabolique, a photographic exploration of Christensen’s historical sources, created in 2001
Stills gallery
Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968), the 76-minute version of Häxan narrated by author William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring violinist Jean-Luc Ponty
Insert featuring an essay by Chris Fujiwara and notes on the score by Gillian B. Anderson