Released
Witchhammer
January 23 1970 (almost 55 years ago)Rating
77
Based on
61 reviews
- Director: Otakar Vávra
- Writers: Otakar Vávra, Ester Krumbachová
- Genres: Drama, Thriller
- Runtime: 1 h 47 m
- Country: Czechoslovakia
- Company: Filmové studio Barrandov
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.
