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    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.

  2. Feb 22, 2023 · In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal...

  3. The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise purporting to be about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.

  4. Jun 25, 2024 · Witchhammer streaming: where to watch online? Currently you are able to watch "Witchhammer" streaming on Criterion Channel. It is also possible to buy "Witchhammer" on Amazon Video as download or rent it on Amazon Video online.

  5. 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.

  6. Starring Vladimír Šmeral, Elo Romančík, Josef Kemr. Cowritten by Ester Krumbachová and director Otakar Vávra, this unsettling parable uses seventeenth-century religious hysteria as a potent allegory for the repressive political climate of Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia.

  7. Jun 19, 2018 · Witchhammer. Director: Otakar Vávra. Year: 1970. Country: Czechoslovakia. Gothic etchings, a ballad about the coming of the Grim Reaper, a monk submerged in shadow warning us in harsh whispers of the dangers of the female sex: “Through woman came Sin into the world…”.