Witchhammer

Witchhammer

7.6IMDb Score
Released:1970-01-23
Duration:107 min
Director:Otakar Vávra
Actors:Elo Romančík, Vladimír Šmeral, Soňa Valentová, Josef Kemr, Lola Skrbková
Production:Filmové studio Barrandov

Overview:

In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.

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