| Hagazussa | |
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| Directed by | Lukas Feigelfeld |
| Written by | Lukas Feigelfeld |
| Produced by | Lukas Feigelfeld Simon Lubinski |
| Starring | Aleksandra Cwen Celina Peter Claudia Martini Tanja Petrovsky Haymon Maria Buttinger |
| Cinematography | Mariel Baqueiro |
| Edited by | Jorg Volkmar |
| Music by | MMMD |
Production companies | Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin Retina Fabrik |
| Distributed by | Forgotten Film Entertainment |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Countries | Germany Austria |
| Language | German |
Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (German: hagazussa, an Old High German term for "witch"[1]) is a 2017 Austrian horror film written and directed by Lukas Feigelfeld in his feature directorial debut, and produced by Feigelfeld and Simon Lubinski. The film takes place in a remote mountain village in the 15th-century Alps, and follows Aleksandra Cwen as Albrun, a goat-herder shunned by her fellow townspeople who finds herself in an uneasy friendship with a local villager.
The film, an international co-production between Germany and Austria, premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on 22 September 2017, and received a wide release in Germany on 17 May 2018. It received positive reviews from critics.
- ^ Anne Sophie Günzel, Witchcraft in Early Modern Germany (GRIN Verlag, 2007, ISBN 9783638726733), p. 3: "During the fifteenth century the term Hexe became the most common German word for witches. The term derives from Old High German hagazussa which characterises a female spirit in Nordic mythology who straddled the fence."