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Witchhammer (1970)
Directed by Otakar Vávra
“Anyone who stands up for heretics is considered a heretic himself!”
Drama, Thriller · 1h 47m
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.
Cast
Elo Romančík
Vladimír Šmeral
Soňa Valentová
Josef Kemr
Lola Skrbková
Jiřina Štěpničková
Marie Nademlejnská
Miriam Kantorková
Lubor Tokoš
Blažena Holišová
Jaroslava Obermaierová
Jiří Holý
Crew
- Director
- Otakar Vávra
- Screenplay
- Otakar Vávra, Ester Krumbachová
- Novel
- Václav Kaplický
- Director of Photography
- Josef Illík
- Original Music Composer
- Jiří Srnka
- Editor
- Antonín Zelenka
Details
- Original title
- Kladivo na čarodějnice
- Release date
- 1970-01-23
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Filmové studio Barrandov