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Haxan is a 1922 silent horror essay film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Consisting partly of documentary-style storytelling as well as dramatized horror sequences, the film charts the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Based partly on Christensen's own study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, the film proposes the notion that such witch hunts may have stemmed from misunderstandings of diseases and mental illnesses, triggering mass hysteria. An international co-production between Sweden and Denmark, Haxan was filmed in 1920. With Christensen's meticulous recreation of medieval scenes and the lengthy production period, the film was the most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made, costing nearly two million Swedish kronor. Although it won acclaim in Denmark and Sweden,[citation needed] the film was banned in the United States and heavily censored in other countries for what were considered at that time graphic depictions of torture, nudity, and sexual perversion. Benjamin Christensen as the Devil Ella la Cour as Sorceress Karna Emmy Schønfeld as Karna's Assistant Kate Fabian as the Old Maid Oscar Stribolt as Fat Monk Wilhelmine Henriksen as Apelone Astrid Holm as Anna Elisabeth Christensen as Anna's Mother Karen Winther as Anna's Sister Maren Pedersen as the Witch Johannes Andersen as Pater Henrik, Witch Judge Elith Pio as Johannes, Witch Judge Aage Hertel as Witch Judge Ib Schønberg as Witch Judge Holst Jørgensen as Peter Titta (in Denmark called Ole Kighul) Clara Pontoppidan as Sister Cecilia, Nun Elsa Vermehren as Flagellating Nun Alice O'Fredericks as Nun Gerda Madsen as Nun Karina Bell as Nun Tora Teje as the Hysterical Woman Poul Reumert as the Jeweller H.C. Nilsen as the Jeweller's Assistant Albrecht Schmidt as the Psychiatrist Knud Rassow as the Anatomist