Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
- rape
- torture
- religious fundamentalism
- witch trial
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Herbert Lom
Lord Cumberland
Udo Kier
Count Christian von Meruh
Olivera Katarina
Vanessa Benedikt
Reggie Nalder
Albino
- Herbert Fux — Jeff Wilkens - Executioner
- Johannes Buzalski — Advocato
- Michael Maien — Baron Daumer
- Gaby Fuchs — Deidre von Bergenstein
- Adrian Hoven — Nobleman
- Ingeborg Schöner — Nobleman's Wife
- Percy Hoven — Blond Child
- Günter Clemens — Friedrich
- Doris von Danwitz — Elisabeth
- Dorothea Carrera
- Marlies Petersen
- Directed
- Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven
- Written
- Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 109 ratings
- Studio
- Atlas International Film, Aquila Film Enterprises, HIFI Stereo 70
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
