Witchhammer

1970 · 107 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 3,074 VOTES · DIR. 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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,105 lines

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00:00:05 Already like a black cloud
00:06:03 Ecce Agnus Dei, Quitollit peccata mundi.
00:10:34 Answer! Otherwise you will be in mortal sin.
00:14:09 - I am Boblig. - You?
00:17:51 - You feasted and drank there. - No, no...
00:24:09 You have a fine place here.
00:28:32 Say it, come on...
00:32:14 confess in good faith what both women have reported
00:36:28 the inner strength not to succumb.
00:40:53 stuck knives in them and them jumped about on them.
00:46:42 was told by a witch that he could choose another.
00:50:40 recognised that. He gave me to know it.
00:53:40 inhumanity and insensitivity towards the superstitious
00:57:39 I bribed the warden.
01:01:37 another judge in his place to pronounce the death sentence.
01:06:42 So Mistress Sattler, Sattler, and their daughter
01:10:35 Tell the truth. If you show repentance God will forgive you.
01:17:17 I'm off.
01:21:30 Kaspar Sattler
01:25:26 Yes, we gorged there, drank, and capered and danced and...
01:28:48 But this Boblig uses the same methods as the inquisitors
01:32:25 whether torture is the most reliable means...
01:36:17 So, Dean, you give up your activities on the commission
01:41:49 Because in your name we have sinned against man.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,105
Dialogue density10.3 lines / min
First line00:00:05
Final line01:41:49

Production Record

DirectorOtakar Vávra
LanguageCS
IMDb votes3,074