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Status
Released
Release
1970
Runtime
1h 36m
Available options inUS
"Positively the most horrifying film ever made"
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.
17 Cast Members
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
Bob Gerry
Friedrich Schoenfelder
Narrator
