The Witch Hunt
Horror movie by Otakar Vávra from 1969.The Witch Hunt
Czech Republic, 1969, 103min
Director: Otakar Vávra
Elo Romančík, Josef Kemr, Soňa Valentová, Blanka Waleská, Lola Skrbková, Jiřina Štepničková, Marie Nademlejnská, Miriam Kantorková, Eduard Cupák, Martin Růžek, Čestmír Randa,
A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).
Witchhammer (Czech: Kladivo na čarodějnice) is a 1970 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra and starring Elo Romančík. Based on the novel Kladivo na čarodějnice by Václav Kaplický, Witchhammer relates the story of the Northern Moravia witch trials of the 1670s, focusing on the priest Kryštof Lautner, played by Romančík, who falls victim to the witchhunt after opposing the trials. The film contains possible allegory about Communism in Czechoslovakia.
Rating by horrory.cz: 88 %
Rating by imdb.com: 81 %
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