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Witchhammer (1970)
Directed by Otakar Vávra
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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.
Length 107 minutes
Actors
Elo Romančík | Vladimír Šmeral | Soňa Valentová | Josef Kemr | Lola Skrbková | Jiřina Štěpničková | Marie Nademlejnská | Miriam Kantorková | Lubor Tokoš | Blažena Holišová | Jaroslava Obermaierová | Jiří Holý | Rudolf Krátký | Čestmír Řanda st. | Blanka Waleská | Martin Růžek | Josef Bláha | Eduard Cupák | Ilja Prachař | Gustav Opočenský | Václav Lohniský | Štěpán Zemánek | František Holar | Zdeněk Kryzánek | Miloš Willig | Josef Mixa | Josef Elsner | Miloš Hájek | Zdeněk Hodr | Jiří Lír | Karel Belohradský | Karel Čížek | Zdeněk Dohnal | Eduard Pavlíček | Jan Pohan | Marie Cingrošová | Ladislav Gzela | Zbyněk Jirmář | Zbyněk Bruthans | Jirí Hurta | Vladimír Navrátil | Jindřiška Gabriela Preissová | Jan Prokeš | Boleslava Svobodová | Vladimír Švabík | Alois Vachek | Martin Kapoun | Ivana Horká | E. Lázničková | Yvona Odehnalová | M. Svoboda | J. Umlauf | I. Bobková | Zdeněk Derka | J. Janovcová | Oldřich Mazůrek | Vladislav Šebesta | M. Ždánská | Karel Engel | Otakar Rademacher | J. Bartoš | L. Kot | Zuzana Rumlová | Yvonne Kodoňová | L. Divišová | E. Maragnová | S. Procházková | R. Propperová | L. Šindlerová
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/14/2022 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 8 stars |
| (Average) 8 stars |
Viewing Notes
Finally really digging into the folk horror box set from Severin.
A brutal, blunt and unflinching account of witch trials in the 1600s taken from actual written documents, this is very obviously an allusion to the Soviet pogroms of the 1930s and the unjustness of Communism in general.
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