This film’s title character, who appears at an archaeological dig in Iraq in the opening scene, was played by Max von Sydow, a frequent collaborator of Ingmar Bergman. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin. In this film, the priest Lankester Merrin rids the young girl Regan MacNeil of her demonic possession.
ANSWER: The Exorcist
[10m] Friedkin’s decision to insert flashes of the demon’s face was inspired by jarring shots from Night and Fog, Alain Resnais’s (“reh-NAY’s”) documentary on this subject. Claude Lanzmann made a nine-hour documentary about this subject.
ANSWER: the Holocaust [or the Shoah; or the concentration camps; accept descriptions of the genocide of Jews in Europe during World War II or equivalents; prompt on World War II or WWII; prompt on genocide] (Lanzmann’s film is Shoah.)
[10h] This film’s depiction of a resurrection inspired Friedkin to show the actual exorcism. In this 1955 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the seemingly mad Messianic figure Johannes brings Inger back to life after she dies in childbirth.
ANSWER: Ordet [or The Word]
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