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Film was reaction to the communist 50s justice
system who killed hundreds of innocent people.
<i>For more info see "The Confession" (1970)</i>

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Banned after release until
The Velvet Revolution in 1989.

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<i>Already like a black cloud</i>

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Witches' Hammer (1970)
(The Witch Hunt / Witchhammer)

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<i>Death the killer comes riding</i>

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<i>on his hunchback horse</i>

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<i>and the bones of the horse
are rattling</i>

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<i>and his mildewed mane
flows and flows</i>

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<i>and with bones and bones
he bids us welcome</i>

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<i>Like a black cloud</i>

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<i>death the killer
comes riding</i>

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<i>already he comes riding.</i>

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<i>And blood and blood
no time for a coffin</i>

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<i>with blood and blood
he despoils the barren fields.</i>

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<i>We are careless now.</i>

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<i>The reaper is among us</i>

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<i>the reaper is among us now.</i>

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<i>The reaper is riding
on his black horse</i>

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<i>whose very bones
are rattling</i>

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<i>and he beckons,
beckons every soldier</i>

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<i>and wields the scythe
of death the killer.</i>

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<i>Like a black guest</i>

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<i>he already gnaws white bone</i>

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<i>he already gnaws white bone.</i>

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<i>And the black guest already
gnaws white bone</i>

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<i>with bones and bones
he bids us welcome.</i>

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Based on Northern Moravian witch trials occurred
in Velke Losiny and Sumperk area between 1678 and 1695.

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<i>We are already careless.
Already the reaper is among us.</i>

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<i>Already the reaper is among us.</i>

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Through woman came sin into
the world. Woman is sin.

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The womb of woman
is the gateway to hell.

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Bodily desire is the root
of evil, in woman insatiable.

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The embrace of woman is like
unto the snares of the hunter.

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Woman works her trickery
with the devil

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who appears in the form
of a man.

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Have mercy.

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May the Lord God repay you.

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<i>Welcome oh guest
most precious</i>

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<i>my sweet Jesus</i>

40
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<i>my dearest friend</i>

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<i>Jesus most blessed</i>

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<i>welcome into my heart</i>

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<i>that loves you so.</i>

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<i>Oh righteous God on High</i>

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<i>Oh how you demean yourself</i>

46
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<i>descending from your
august throne</i>

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<i>into my lips.</i>

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<i>Oh my only God</i>

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<i>forgive us our sins.</i>

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Hoc est enim Corpus meum.

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Lord I am not worthy, that you
should enter under my roof,

52
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but speak the word only
and my soul shall be healed.

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Ecce Agnus Dei,
Quitollit peccata mundi.

54
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Lord I am not worthy, that you
should enter under my roof,

55
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but speak the word only
and my soul shall be healed.

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Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi
custediat animam tuam

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in vitam aeternam Amen.

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Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi
custediat animam tuam

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in vitam aeternam Amen...

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<i>Joy unto Thee
Queen of Heaven</i>

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<i>Allelujah</i>

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Come into the sacristy.

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Come on!

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<i>In the shadow of her
Holy Son</i>

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<i>Allelujah</i>

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<i>You stood, dearest
of mothers...</i>

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What have you gone and done?

68
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Oh God!

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What is she doing here?

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- What's the meaning of this?
- I'm not to blame, Reverend Sir.

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Mrs. Grör from Vernirovice,
has a cow that won't milk.

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Bring in the sheriff!

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Be seated, gentlemen.

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Have you brought her?
What does she look like?

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I've never seen a witch before.

76
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The worst thing is,

77
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that it's not a matter
of just one beggarwoman

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but a whole coven of witches.

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And the most uncompromising
measures are necessary.

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Bring her in!

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Nothing like this has
happened to me before.

82
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You are still young, Brother.

83
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Is this the woman?

84
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Speak as if you were at
the confessional.

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What happened with that
holy communion wafer?

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Ma Grörka, the midwife
who lives out our way,

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needed that blessed wafer
to give to her cow,

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it had stopped giving milk,
you see.

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She promised me a bushel
of peas and some barley flour.

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I know I shouldn't
have done it,

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but Your Reverence, her cow's
one of God's creatures too.

92
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I thought the Lord God
would forgive me.

93
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Don't you know that foolish
superstitions are sinful?

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I did so want those peas.

95
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It's abominable.

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Where did that old Ma Grör
get the idea about the wafer?

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Old Ma David gave her
the tip.

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And who is Ma David?

99
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Oh, such an old witch!

100
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What makes you think
she's a witch?

101
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Answer! Otherwise you
will be in mortal sin.

102
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Oh, I didn't really
mean it like that.

103
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Ma David's a herb woman.
She mends broken arms.

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And works charms on cows.

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There are plenty such old
women, it doesn't mean...

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Forgive me, your Ladyship,
I am forced to...

107
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Does Ma David stay at home
at night, or go out, or...

108
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does she have visitors
at night?

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But who would visit her, sir?
she's nigh on seventy.

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She has no inkling
of what she has committed.

111
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No, if I'd known the trouble
I'd be in... I'm very sorry.

112
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Don't believe a word
she says, your Ladyship.

113
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- It's the Devil speaking.
- But really Father!

114
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She's just superstitious
like all of them. Look at her.

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Say twenty Paternosters
and twenty Hail Maries.

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- You should be ashamed of yourself.
- It's not mere superstition.

117
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We're on the track
of widespread heresy.

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This is the work of the Devil,
who causes misery in the land.

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I have reported the affair to the
Bishop's Consistory, and ask

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of Your Ladyship that this devil's
breed be exterminated.

121
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- Leave everything to me.
- I trust in your aid.

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Allow me, Your Ladyship,
to recommend that you summon

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an experienced
inquisition judge.

124
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Do you know of a good judge?

125
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I suggest Kaspar Hutter
from Sumperk.

126
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He is wise, just and knows
the local conditions.

127
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But I heard he was suspended.

128
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He let four witches off scot
free.

129
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- They were of unsound mind, Sir.
- So why was he suspended?

130
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Are you saying their
lordships were unjust?

131
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There's a former inquisition
judge living in Olomouc.

132
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- A Mr. Boblig of Edelstadt.
- But he's a pensioner,

133
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he never finished his studies.
I'm forJudge Hutter.

134
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Mr. Boblig of Edelstadt did
his work well for 40 years.

135
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And he has a good reputation
with the Bishop's Consistory.

136
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Go and talk to him.

137
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- What can I do for you, sir?
- Food, drink, a bed.

138
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- I'll drink what you're drinking.
- At your service.

139
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- But mind the bed's clean.
- Everything will be in order.

140
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Can't you tidy yourself up
when you serve me?

141
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Get a move on!

142
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It's an honour.

143
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Well, it'll do.
A touch sour, but it'll do.

144
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You are tired, sir,
I'll prepare your bed now.

145
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- You have come far, sir?
- From Sumperk, Velke Losiny.

146
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Does this inn belong to a man
from Edelstadt? The lawyer?

147
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Get the food ready.

148
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He's a former inquisitor.
I was told this place is his.

149
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- I am Boblig.
- You?

150
00:14:15,201 --> 00:14:16,881
What can I do for you, Sir?

151
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Please take a seat.

152
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How much would a trial like
this cost, Mr. Boblig?

153
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Could I have a little
warm water?

154
00:15:06,555 --> 00:15:10,715
You need to set up an
inquisition tribunal.

155
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Apart from me, as director,

156
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by law the tribunal needs
a procurator fiscal

157
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and a secretary and two
or three lay judges.

158
00:15:22,634 --> 00:15:25,513
And I would need my own clerk.

159
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He is experienced
in observing the accused.

160
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They must be observed
day and night.

161
00:15:32,393 --> 00:15:34,432
Thank you kindly.

162
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As you are surely aware,
witchcraft trials

163
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are not ordinary trials
dealing in capital crimes.

164
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The Devil, your Lordship,
is unusually inventive.

165
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I know, Squire of Edelstadt.

166
00:16:01,269 --> 00:16:03,949
The judge is in peril
of his life.

167
00:16:05,748 --> 00:16:08,308
The property of the condemned
is confiscated by the authorities

168
00:16:08,628 --> 00:16:12,668
and it is from this property
that the trial costs are met.

169
00:16:12,948 --> 00:16:15,748
A fat lot we'd get from
these beggar women!

170
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We want to purge mankind
of the devil.

171
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Money is not the prime
consideration.

172
00:16:21,106 --> 00:16:24,387
You will have no cause for
dissatisfaction with us.

173
00:16:24,787 --> 00:16:25,986
But please try

174
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and get the whole thing finished
as quickly as possible.

175
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I hope it won't be anything
too serious.

176
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Witches enter into a full
compact with the Devil

177
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and accept the Devil as
their lord and master.

178
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In return he grants them
various supernatural powers.

179
00:16:49,583 --> 00:16:53,062
I don't know nothing more, Your
Honour, I said it all already.

180
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I wanted to give the wafer
to the cow,

181
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because she wasn't giving
no milk.

182
00:17:01,662 --> 00:17:04,942
If I'd only known what I was
letting myself in for...

183
00:17:05,181 --> 00:17:06,622
You lie!

184
00:17:06,821 --> 00:17:08,941
You took the holy wafer
to Peter's Rock.

185
00:17:09,221 --> 00:17:10,261
No!

186
00:17:10,461 --> 00:17:12,341
What do you call that black
gallant of yours?

187
00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:17,420
Marten?

188
00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:19,860
Hans?

189
00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:23,180
Green Thomas?

190
00:17:23,419 --> 00:17:26,659
- Answer my question!
- Thomas...

191
00:17:27,219 --> 00:17:30,419
But I don't rightly know
who you mean, Your Honour.

192
00:17:30,699 --> 00:17:32,738
You know well enough.

193
00:17:38,617 --> 00:17:43,497
- Did you often go to Peter's Rock?
- No never in my life.

194
00:17:43,737 --> 00:17:46,177
It's miles away, whoever
would want to go there?

195
00:17:46,457 --> 00:17:48,857
I'm just a poor woman,
I'm scared.

196
00:17:49,097 --> 00:17:50,896
But we know everything.

197
00:17:51,656 --> 00:17:54,976
- You feasted and drank there.
- No, no...

198
00:17:55,215 --> 00:17:57,135
- And trampled the holy wafers.
- No!

199
00:17:57,415 --> 00:18:00,775
Who went with you? You know
many women, you're a midwife.

200
00:18:01,015 --> 00:18:03,014
- What's that you say?
- Who were you with there?

201
00:18:03,255 --> 00:18:05,055
I never set foot there.

202
00:18:05,334 --> 00:18:08,895
Don't you know they say
witches fly around there?

203
00:18:10,133 --> 00:18:12,613
You see, you can help us
when you just try!

204
00:18:16,373 --> 00:18:18,213
In a week's time we'll
summon you again,

205
00:18:18,453 --> 00:18:22,013
to tell us who was there
with you.

206
00:18:22,453 --> 00:18:24,972
- But are you sure?
- I don't want to anticipate,

207
00:18:25,252 --> 00:18:28,651
but it will probably prove
to be an extensive network.

208
00:18:31,691 --> 00:18:34,371
Witches on my estates!

209
00:18:34,691 --> 00:18:37,570
It is...
It's quite dreadful!

210
00:18:39,011 --> 00:18:41,130
And I shall take
the responsibility for it.

211
00:18:42,211 --> 00:18:44,530
You have my complete
confidence.

212
00:18:44,850 --> 00:18:47,930
My full support,
Good Squire of Edelstadt.

213
00:19:25,445 --> 00:19:29,485
How long is it since that student
was mad with love for you?

214
00:19:29,805 --> 00:19:32,164
But that student ran away.

215
00:19:32,444 --> 00:19:35,684
He had to run away, or he'd
have been forced into the army.

216
00:19:36,044 --> 00:19:38,724
And now you have a daughter
ripe for marriage.

217
00:19:39,003 --> 00:19:44,523
Who knows which lasts longer,
love or friendship.

218
00:19:48,563 --> 00:19:51,762
- Don't you want him?
- I'd rather drown myself.

219
00:19:52,522 --> 00:19:55,242
The water's cold,
you'll have to wait.

220
00:19:55,442 --> 00:19:57,042
Kaspar won't budge.

221
00:19:57,681 --> 00:20:00,881
Do you really want to give
Lisa to that mad old fool?

222
00:20:01,082 --> 00:20:04,041
- Why not? Older men marry.
- Lisa is young.

223
00:20:04,281 --> 00:20:06,720
- But she'll be rich with him.
- But without love.

224
00:20:06,961 --> 00:20:08,021
When children arrive

225
00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:11,280
- there's no time for love.
- There's no persuading him.

226
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,599
You have a young housekeeper
and you're not so young yourself.

227
00:20:18,919 --> 00:20:22,918
Think it over, Kaspar.
It would be a pity.

228
00:20:23,198 --> 00:20:26,758
You don't want to ruin her life.
She's your own child.

229
00:20:27,318 --> 00:20:30,278
Those three old hags
in Losiny have confessed.

230
00:20:30,558 --> 00:20:33,037
Three times a year they
would fly to Peter's Rock

231
00:20:33,397 --> 00:20:35,357
on pitchforks. And get up
to God knows what.

232
00:20:35,638 --> 00:20:40,756
- At least it's not on my patch.
- What do you say to it?

233
00:20:40,996 --> 00:20:43,556
That beggarwoman deserves
severe penance,

234
00:20:43,876 --> 00:20:46,436
but that doesn't mean
she's a witch.

235
00:20:46,676 --> 00:20:50,915
- They confessed, didn't they?
- The tribunal hasn't met yet.

236
00:20:51,235 --> 00:20:54,635
I'm afraid you don't know
much about inquisition courts.

237
00:20:54,915 --> 00:20:59,674
We need not spoil the evening
with these matters!

238
00:20:59,954 --> 00:21:01,714
A health to our Lisa
and her twenty years!

239
00:23:27,937 --> 00:23:31,697
I'm in Losiny now
as I'm sure you know.

240
00:23:32,576 --> 00:23:37,216
And I couldn't resist coming
to pay my respects, Reverend.

241
00:23:37,456 --> 00:23:39,536
The honour is mine.

242
00:23:39,855 --> 00:23:42,536
This is my assistant,
the clerk Ignatius.

243
00:23:42,816 --> 00:23:45,295
Wait for me
in the servants' hall.

244
00:23:49,215 --> 00:23:52,494
Susanna, bring some wine
and a little something to eat.

245
00:24:09,212 --> 00:24:10,932
You have a fine place here.

246
00:24:11,852 --> 00:24:17,291
I'd much appreciate your help
in ridding our region of witches.

247
00:24:27,691 --> 00:24:30,330
You play the violin?

248
00:24:36,169 --> 00:24:38,769
Aristoteles...

249
00:24:40,409 --> 00:24:42,808
Euripides...

250
00:24:44,728 --> 00:24:48,328
and theology...

251
00:24:49,527 --> 00:24:52,088
Law...

252
00:24:54,407 --> 00:24:56,807
I don't know this one...

253
00:24:57,447 --> 00:25:01,407
- What a lot of books!
- One can never have enough books.

254
00:25:17,764 --> 00:25:19,964
Excuse me...

255
00:25:24,243 --> 00:25:27,764
Could I ask you for a little
hot water, my girl?

256
00:25:28,563 --> 00:25:30,603
Yes, of course.

257
00:25:32,643 --> 00:25:34,682
Pretty girl.

258
00:25:36,162 --> 00:25:38,562
Do you know what surprised me?

259
00:25:38,881 --> 00:25:42,562
It's how your town has
recovered from that fire.

260
00:25:42,802 --> 00:25:47,601
It looks better than in my youth.
How did people get rich so fast?

261
00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:51,520
- Rich is rather an exaggeration.
- Why?

262
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:54,080
Thank you very much.

263
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,680
Thank you.

264
00:26:00,159 --> 00:26:04,279
I noticed Sattler's new dye works.

265
00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:08,838
A fine house.
It must have cost a pretty penny.

266
00:26:12,878 --> 00:26:14,718
Susanna?

267
00:26:15,117 --> 00:26:16,838
I'll teach you...

268
00:26:19,437 --> 00:26:22,677
Let him go, Florian!
What's going on here?

269
00:26:22,957 --> 00:26:24,996
He's saying shameless things,
your Reverence.

270
00:26:25,276 --> 00:26:29,796
Asking if I'd seen any secret
marks on Miss Susanna!

271
00:26:30,076 --> 00:26:34,155
I pour him two glasses to my
one, and he behaves like that!

272
00:26:35,435 --> 00:26:38,955
Rather strange jests aren't they?
You'd better be off!

273
00:26:40,795 --> 00:26:42,994
We are on church ground.

274
00:26:44,714 --> 00:26:47,834
He is too full of zeal.
Forgive us.

275
00:26:52,393 --> 00:26:55,353
I hope, Father, that this
is not our last meeting.

276
00:27:06,072 --> 00:27:07,952
What's the matter, Susanna?

277
00:27:08,232 --> 00:27:10,511
What's happened to you?

278
00:27:10,791 --> 00:27:13,831
- What on earth is it?
- Anyone can insult me.

279
00:27:14,231 --> 00:27:18,470
- Whenever they feel like it.
- But what are you saying?

280
00:27:19,270 --> 00:27:23,350
When you find someone you like,
you'll marry and be happy.

281
00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:28,030
But I don't want anybody.
You know I don't.

282
00:27:29,509 --> 00:27:34,149
And you know my only wish
is for you to be happy.

283
00:27:34,469 --> 00:27:38,668
Is it really?
You wish me happiness?

284
00:27:41,828 --> 00:27:46,067
But who would ever marry
a priest's cook?

285
00:27:55,826 --> 00:27:59,586
Witches fly to their meetings
and to rise into the air,

286
00:27:59,986 --> 00:28:04,705
they grease themselves with marrow
and the fat of murdered innocents

287
00:28:04,945 --> 00:28:09,224
mixed with fresh blood from under
the hearts of virgins.

288
00:28:09,504 --> 00:28:12,944
They sit on brooms, distaffs,
pitchforks or he-goats

289
00:28:13,264 --> 00:28:17,023
and fly up the chimney
as on horses.

290
00:28:18,064 --> 00:28:19,983
No!

291
00:28:20,303 --> 00:28:24,743
No! I was never there!
I don't know nothing!

292
00:28:28,062 --> 00:28:31,982
I'll say anything you want.
Please don't, please...

293
00:28:32,462 --> 00:28:34,822
Say it, come on...

294
00:28:35,102 --> 00:28:44,340
And my gallant Marten took me
with him to Peter's rock...

295
00:28:44,780 --> 00:28:49,900
My gallant Marten took me
with him to Peter's Rock.

296
00:28:50,619 --> 00:28:54,939
And such meetings would
take place - go on, tell us!

297
00:28:55,260 --> 00:28:59,258
And such meetings would take
place on Walpurgis Night.

298
00:28:59,499 --> 00:29:06,458
No. Such meetings took place
four times a year. First...

299
00:29:06,778 --> 00:29:08,897
First...

300
00:29:09,417 --> 00:29:13,617
- First...
- No, you can't sleep now, stand up!

301
00:29:13,977 --> 00:29:19,856
And listen.
The meetings happened first...

302
00:29:20,136 --> 00:29:23,815
First on Walpurgis Night.

303
00:29:24,056 --> 00:29:27,135
Did you see Mrs. Tobias from
the Baths there?

304
00:29:29,815 --> 00:29:36,535
Yes! First on Walpurgis Night,
second on St. Martin's Eve,

305
00:29:36,854 --> 00:29:42,733
third on Easter Saturday,
fourth on St. George's day...

306
00:29:45,413 --> 00:29:51,293
- How did you say the Hail Mary?
- I said the Hail Mary,

307
00:29:51,573 --> 00:29:56,292
but when I got to the words
"Blessed be the fruit of Thy womb",

308
00:29:56,612 --> 00:29:59,051
my gallant Mar... Mar...

309
00:29:59,412 --> 00:30:04,771
my gallant Marten threw me on
the ground and I had to say,

310
00:30:05,091 --> 00:30:08,091
- "Marten's black tail".
- Out loud!

311
00:30:08,611 --> 00:30:13,770
Then I lay down and then
we fornicated together.

312
00:30:14,450 --> 00:30:19,730
When he was done I had to
pray to his tail and kiss it.

313
00:30:20,769 --> 00:30:24,209
And what were you doing
on Peter's Rocks?

314
00:30:30,288 --> 00:30:32,527
I was supposed to be
the lighter.

315
00:30:32,768 --> 00:30:37,487
Marten brought candles,
and turned my bare behind up

316
00:30:37,807 --> 00:30:41,846
and stuck the candles in it. So
I lighted the place until Midnight.

317
00:30:42,126 --> 00:30:47,086
For this I got a Rhine florin
from Mrs. Tobias from the baths.

318
00:30:48,366 --> 00:30:51,605
Who was with you
at Peter's Rocks?

319
00:30:51,885 --> 00:30:55,605
- Name them all!
- I didn't recognise them.

320
00:30:56,845 --> 00:30:58,844
You must remember.

321
00:30:59,085 --> 00:31:02,085
- Who was with you at Peter's
Rocks? - No one!

322
00:31:03,244 --> 00:31:06,484
I've never been
to St. Peter's Rocks.

323
00:31:07,564 --> 00:31:11,123
Mistress David, you have heard
both the accused speak of you.

324
00:31:11,403 --> 00:31:14,843
They are ready to live and die
by their testimony. Confess!

325
00:31:15,323 --> 00:31:17,843
If they talked of me, then
they talked of me.

326
00:31:18,123 --> 00:31:22,402
If they wants to die, they can
die. I can't confess nothing.

327
00:31:22,682 --> 00:31:25,802
Because Mistress David
refuses to answer,

328
00:31:26,041 --> 00:31:27,401
I have called Mistress Schuch,

329
00:31:27,641 --> 00:31:29,601
who evidently knows something
of the matter.

330
00:31:31,321 --> 00:31:35,600
You said that Mistress David
often spoke at Peter's Rocks.

331
00:31:35,961 --> 00:31:38,041
She talked a lot all right.

332
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,000
Why is she silent
before the court?

333
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,519
Because she has a dumb spirit.
She has two spirits.

334
00:31:45,799 --> 00:31:50,519
- One dumb and one big mouth.
- How do you know this?

335
00:31:50,999 --> 00:31:55,438
- My spirit Marten told me.
- Are you willing to live and die

336
00:31:55,718 --> 00:31:59,558
- by what you have said?
- Yes, I'm willing to live

337
00:31:59,877 --> 00:32:01,677
and die by it.

338
00:32:01,957 --> 00:32:03,877
You have heard, gentlemen.

339
00:32:04,197 --> 00:32:07,157
No, I didn't say a thing,
Good Sir of Edelstadt.

340
00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:13,876
Mistress David,

341
00:32:14,196 --> 00:32:17,556
confess in good faith
what both women have reported,

342
00:32:17,875 --> 00:32:21,275
so that we do not have to
use harsher methods.

343
00:32:23,555 --> 00:32:28,115
Since you have a dumb spirit,
we must obey our orders.

344
00:32:28,434 --> 00:32:31,474
Master Hay, the first stretch,
please.

345
00:32:55,551 --> 00:32:59,751
I admit everything these two
women said about me.

346
00:33:00,031 --> 00:33:02,671
Who were the others?
Name them!

347
00:33:13,709 --> 00:33:17,508
You see Gentlemen, she really
is in the grip of a dumb spirit.

348
00:33:27,628 --> 00:33:31,547
On Walpurgis Night each witch
is initiated into the meeting

349
00:33:31,867 --> 00:33:33,667
by her own horned lover.

350
00:33:33,947 --> 00:33:36,107
There without regard for age
or kinship

351
00:33:36,426 --> 00:33:38,867
they give themselves up
to most loathsome fornication.

352
00:33:46,345 --> 00:33:49,185
Bring clean straw.
Whoever could abide this stink?

353
00:33:55,465 --> 00:33:56,904
So,

354
00:33:57,464 --> 00:34:00,303
who were you with at
Peter's Rocks?

355
00:34:02,263 --> 00:34:05,183
- With you, you devil!
- What did you say?

356
00:34:05,463 --> 00:34:08,623
With you! Live or die by it!

357
00:34:08,823 --> 00:34:10,943
Hay, do you not know what
you must do?

358
00:34:11,223 --> 00:34:16,741
- You devil! Devil!
- Hurry up, shut her mouth!

359
00:34:17,662 --> 00:34:20,262
Devil, devil...

360
00:34:27,620 --> 00:34:30,260
She won't be screaming
any more, your Honour.

361
00:34:38,499 --> 00:34:40,419
Your Ladyship,

362
00:34:40,739 --> 00:34:45,738
tonight one of the three
witches expired.

363
00:34:46,339 --> 00:34:49,498
- How did she die?
- Under torture?

364
00:34:50,498 --> 00:34:54,178
No, the devil broke her neck

365
00:34:54,497 --> 00:34:56,657
to stop her testifying.

366
00:35:02,736 --> 00:35:05,056
In the night I heard
a dreadful scream.

367
00:35:06,336 --> 00:35:08,616
Do you think
it was the devil?

368
00:35:08,896 --> 00:35:11,976
- In my chateau?
- I am afraid so, Your Ladyship.

369
00:35:12,256 --> 00:35:17,335
Master Hay heard the David
woman fighting with the devil.

370
00:35:19,135 --> 00:35:21,774
In that case I cannot
stay here.

371
00:35:22,094 --> 00:35:25,054
I shall move out
until this is all over.

372
00:35:25,453 --> 00:35:29,254
- I hope it will be over soon.
- I cannot guarantee it.

373
00:35:31,054 --> 00:35:34,053
I would like to point out,
Good Sir of Edelstadt,

374
00:35:34,333 --> 00:35:37,812
that according to the law
torture may only be used

375
00:35:38,132 --> 00:35:40,253
in the presence of the tribunal.

376
00:35:40,492 --> 00:35:42,812
I know my duties.

377
00:35:43,372 --> 00:35:44,931
And my rights!

378
00:35:45,292 --> 00:35:46,371
It would be unpleasant

379
00:35:46,571 --> 00:35:48,892
if there was talk of this
at the royal court.

380
00:35:49,131 --> 00:35:52,571
I shall take care, that the devil
does not outwit me again.

381
00:35:52,811 --> 00:35:58,170
Edelstadt is capable of turning
the clock back a hundred years.

382
00:36:00,130 --> 00:36:05,049
Surely not. Some people
at least will stand up to him.

383
00:36:05,369 --> 00:36:08,169
Never underestimate
bodily pain, my friend.

384
00:36:08,569 --> 00:36:13,169
Until you suffer bodily pain,
you're full of courage.

385
00:36:13,528 --> 00:36:16,008
But then, according
to what I have seen,

386
00:36:16,328 --> 00:36:21,007
- full of pain and fear.
- That's true but then again...

387
00:36:22,127 --> 00:36:24,367
Finish what you were saying.

388
00:36:25,207 --> 00:36:27,766
I don't know,
but maybe one could find

389
00:36:28,006 --> 00:36:30,287
the inner strength
not to succumb.

390
00:36:30,646 --> 00:36:34,406
Better not let the inquisitor
into our houses.

391
00:36:34,725 --> 00:36:36,726
I trust not, not
into our houses,

392
00:36:37,765 --> 00:36:39,766
but here...

393
00:36:41,205 --> 00:36:42,965
he's managed to get this far.

394
00:36:45,205 --> 00:36:47,084
Praised be the Lord.

395
00:36:47,445 --> 00:36:50,604
They have just arrested
Mrs. Tobias the bath attendant.

396
00:37:06,882 --> 00:37:09,722
No more, wipe me.

397
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:25,440
And with these ones here,
find out about their property.

398
00:37:30,879 --> 00:37:33,079
These are the richest.

399
00:37:36,959 --> 00:37:40,198
Because everything comes
from the Devil,

400
00:37:41,638 --> 00:37:46,798
- particularly wealth, dear boy.
- You've a head for that, sir.

401
00:37:49,117 --> 00:37:51,277
Indeed I have.

402
00:37:56,717 --> 00:38:00,476
Some people think books
are the source of all wisdom.

403
00:38:01,675 --> 00:38:04,636
Like Dean Lautner for example.

404
00:38:09,115 --> 00:38:11,674
Book-learned as a monk.

405
00:38:15,674 --> 00:38:18,393
He thinks himself
better than me,

406
00:38:18,794 --> 00:38:21,954
he thinks his head's crammed
with all there is to know.

407
00:38:22,233 --> 00:38:26,473
Did you happen to notice
that cook of his, sir...

408
00:38:31,113 --> 00:38:32,832
Well, there you are then,

409
00:38:33,632 --> 00:38:36,111
beauty is also a work
of the Devil.

410
00:38:36,472 --> 00:38:40,231
I wager she'd have plenty
to tell us.

411
00:38:41,432 --> 00:38:43,711
She will too, and she'll tell us

412
00:38:44,111 --> 00:38:48,350
if he's learnt more
from those books of his or...

413
00:38:49,390 --> 00:38:51,670
from her.

414
00:38:51,990 --> 00:38:54,150
Do you reckon he's been
taking lessons from her?

415
00:38:54,469 --> 00:38:58,589
I'd say he's been teaching her
a thing or two himself.

416
00:38:58,869 --> 00:39:01,149
Don't you think you're
getting a bit above yourself?

417
00:39:02,549 --> 00:39:07,028
- Go and do what I told you!
- What have I done now?

418
00:39:08,548 --> 00:39:12,867
Nothing, nothing.
Forget it all.

419
00:39:14,307 --> 00:39:17,387
When it's all over
I'll build myself a house.

420
00:39:18,147 --> 00:39:21,307
And you'll come to my wedding.

421
00:39:24,627 --> 00:39:26,506
Dorothy Tobias,

422
00:39:26,866 --> 00:39:29,946
Tell us who was there
with you.

423
00:39:35,025 --> 00:39:36,545
Yes,

424
00:39:36,945 --> 00:39:41,864
At Peter's Rocks
I saw Maria Sattler,

425
00:39:42,224 --> 00:39:47,823
wife of the dyer Kaspar Sattler,
and he was there too...

426
00:39:48,624 --> 00:39:54,743
with their daughter Elizabeth.
I confess it to save my soul.

427
00:39:58,382 --> 00:40:00,662
And who else?

428
00:40:11,860 --> 00:40:16,020
The Dean Father Lautner
and his cook...

429
00:40:17,260 --> 00:40:20,420
- Susanna Voglick.
- That's not true!

430
00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:24,219
- You made it up!
- I am the examiner here.

431
00:40:24,859 --> 00:40:28,059
Your duty is to listen.

432
00:40:31,858 --> 00:40:35,298
What did you do there
after you ate and drank?

433
00:40:37,497 --> 00:40:41,418
The dean's cook brought
an apron full of blessed wafers.

434
00:40:41,657 --> 00:40:44,777
And Father Lautner gave
them out to us.

435
00:40:45,097 --> 00:40:48,176
I spat on them and stamped
on them with my boots.

436
00:40:50,456 --> 00:40:53,496
The dyer's wife Sattler
and the dean's cook

437
00:40:53,856 --> 00:40:57,975
stuck knives in them
and them jumped about on them.

438
00:40:58,775 --> 00:41:02,775
The dyer Sattler and the dean
put them in their boots

439
00:41:03,095 --> 00:41:06,294
and then danced in them.

440
00:41:06,694 --> 00:41:08,894
Then we wiped our behinds
with them.

441
00:41:09,174 --> 00:41:13,413
- Nonsense! The woman is insane.
- Insulting the dean like that!

442
00:41:13,614 --> 00:41:16,893
- Gentlemen, quiet please.
- But this is unbelievable!

443
00:41:17,173 --> 00:41:20,453
Is something unclear to you
Master Forester?

444
00:41:21,013 --> 00:41:24,252
No, no, forgive me.

445
00:41:25,252 --> 00:41:28,732
Are you willing to live
and die by your testimony?

446
00:41:29,252 --> 00:41:30,811
Yes,

447
00:41:31,091 --> 00:41:35,491
I will live and die by it.
I beg only for a merciful death.

448
00:41:36,771 --> 00:41:42,450
And my children, I beg you
in God's name, are innocent.

449
00:42:45,883 --> 00:42:48,042
In the name of
His Imperial Highness,

450
00:42:48,362 --> 00:42:52,602
let those condemned for
the heinous crime of witchcraft

451
00:42:53,082 --> 00:42:57,281
be executed as the law demands,
as just punishment and warning.

452
00:43:00,601 --> 00:43:03,761
Maryna Schuch,
Do you accept this judgment?

453
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,921
Yes, I humbly thank you.

454
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,919
Dorothy Grör and you,
Dorothy Tobias,

455
00:43:12,199 --> 00:43:15,759
you have heard the judgment,
do you accept it?

456
00:43:17,879 --> 00:43:20,599
Can't do much else.

457
00:43:21,078 --> 00:43:23,519
No, not like that.
Thank him.

458
00:43:23,838 --> 00:43:26,438
Thank his Lordship.

459
00:43:30,758 --> 00:43:34,597
Yes, I humbly thank
his gracious Lordship.

460
00:43:34,917 --> 00:43:38,437
Master Jokl,
Do your duty.

461
00:43:54,035 --> 00:43:58,314
- Reverend Sir, I'm afraid.
- God is merciful.

462
00:44:11,873 --> 00:44:14,472
I was forced to confess.

463
00:44:14,992 --> 00:44:18,672
- They tortured me nine days.
- That is a lie.

464
00:44:18,912 --> 00:44:22,711
She was examined with thumbscrews
and a Spanish boot.

465
00:44:23,071 --> 00:44:24,951
That is the usual procedure.

466
00:44:25,711 --> 00:44:31,910
Flee, good people, flee!
or you will share my fate!

467
00:44:46,749 --> 00:44:49,148
I die innocent.

468
00:44:49,468 --> 00:44:54,948
- My children will curse you!
- Jesus, be merciful to me.

469
00:44:55,788 --> 00:44:58,708
I denounced innocent people.

470
00:45:07,146 --> 00:45:10,266
Lucifer rises out of the ground,
his lower half hairy as a goat,

471
00:45:10,506 --> 00:45:12,826
but shining like the sun
from his hips upwards.

472
00:45:13,066 --> 00:45:16,985
The witches fall to their knees,
and kiss his left foot and arse.

473
00:45:17,226 --> 00:45:22,105
Then the great fiend celebrates
a back mass in full vestments.

474
00:45:43,143 --> 00:45:46,822
They were just poor wretched
helpers of the devil.

475
00:45:50,822 --> 00:45:56,141
There are some incredible
reports, Gentlemen.

476
00:45:57,620 --> 00:46:02,860
Two Dominicans recorded
the story of one witch,

477
00:46:03,140 --> 00:46:07,379
who removed the penises,
of the men she lay with.

478
00:46:15,779 --> 00:46:17,738
To the stake with such
monsters!

479
00:46:18,098 --> 00:46:22,338
She hid about thirty of them
in a sort of nest in a tree.

480
00:46:22,657 --> 00:46:23,717
How many?

481
00:46:23,858 --> 00:46:26,817
- Thirty, Your Excellency.
- God save us!

482
00:46:27,137 --> 00:46:30,577
At the inquisition court
many witnesses claimed

483
00:46:30,896 --> 00:46:34,456
that the penises moved
as if alive.

484
00:46:39,776 --> 00:46:42,495
One unfortunate man
who had lost his member,

485
00:46:42,816 --> 00:46:46,295
was told by a witch
that he could choose another.

486
00:46:46,575 --> 00:46:50,254
Of course, he chose the largest.

487
00:46:51,295 --> 00:46:54,734
But that witch really
berated him for it.

488
00:46:55,214 --> 00:46:57,693
She said the member
belonged...

489
00:46:58,733 --> 00:47:02,413
to a certain prince bishop.

490
00:47:12,972 --> 00:47:16,691
For God's sake,
Good Squire of Edelstadt,

491
00:47:17,931 --> 00:47:19,691
stop these trials.

492
00:47:20,971 --> 00:47:26,050
I am amazed that you, Father,
should want such a thing.

493
00:47:26,971 --> 00:47:30,289
You are perhaps overexcited.
You should get some rest.

494
00:47:30,569 --> 00:47:32,970
I looked into their eyes,

495
00:47:33,209 --> 00:47:35,649
when the fire was already lit.

496
00:47:35,929 --> 00:47:38,129
They were innocent.

497
00:47:38,409 --> 00:47:40,409
They were innocent!

498
00:47:40,649 --> 00:47:42,488
Have a care, Father,

499
00:47:42,729 --> 00:47:46,727
as a priest you must not
look into women's eyes,

500
00:47:46,968 --> 00:47:51,727
however ugly the women.
Or the devil may deceive you.

501
00:47:56,886 --> 00:47:58,207
And just imagine,

502
00:47:58,406 --> 00:48:02,686
that she sprinkled grain on those
penises in the nest.

503
00:48:38,562 --> 00:48:41,081
All right, you are right.

504
00:48:41,361 --> 00:48:43,241
But where do you want
to make representations?

505
00:48:43,521 --> 00:48:46,681
All the court officials are
worrying about the Turkish threat.

506
00:48:46,961 --> 00:48:48,681
So you mean it's best
to keep quiet, do you?

507
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:54,920
Christopher, these days
anyone who stands up for heretics

508
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:57,919
is considered a heretic himself.

509
00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:01,799
Stop walking on those
splinters. It gives me earache.

510
00:49:02,079 --> 00:49:03,719
I'm sorry.

511
00:49:03,999 --> 00:49:05,959
Forgive me both of you.

512
00:49:06,158 --> 00:49:09,038
In a moment I'll be behaving
like them.

513
00:49:09,358 --> 00:49:12,558
How can a man like that hold
human fates in his hand?

514
00:49:12,798 --> 00:49:16,197
- Yours, yours and mine.
- And it will always be so.

515
00:49:16,477 --> 00:49:19,117
If I believed that. I wouldn't
want to go one living!

516
00:49:19,357 --> 00:49:24,237
Why did you become a judge?
Why did you let those women go?

517
00:49:24,477 --> 00:49:27,276
You could have been a deluded
inquisitor too, couldn't you?

518
00:49:27,596 --> 00:49:29,595
- Boblig isn't deluded.
- I'm talking about you!

519
00:49:29,916 --> 00:49:34,115
- You are resignation personified!
- Don't you two start to fight!

520
00:49:34,475 --> 00:49:37,555
I know prisoners
and prisons.

521
00:49:38,635 --> 00:49:42,155
I tried to preserve the honour
of my calling as judge.

522
00:49:42,475 --> 00:49:46,434
Which was why I was dismissed.
But that is now irrelevant.

523
00:49:47,274 --> 00:49:51,953
- The point is that I know what
prison can do to a man. - What?

524
00:49:52,474 --> 00:49:54,273
Everything.

525
00:49:54,713 --> 00:49:57,712
Only then you are no longer
yourself.

526
00:50:07,031 --> 00:50:09,111
Hallowed be thy name,

527
00:50:09,991 --> 00:50:12,151
Thy kingdom come

528
00:50:13,991 --> 00:50:16,790
and forgive us
our trespasses.

529
00:50:21,750 --> 00:50:24,349
- Brother, I beg of you!
- Has something happened?

530
00:50:24,789 --> 00:50:27,189
We are all born
of a single mother after all.

531
00:50:27,429 --> 00:50:31,829
- For God's sake, help me!
- Don't shout, walls have ears.

532
00:50:37,508 --> 00:50:40,348
Those three burnt women
were innocent. I...

533
00:50:40,628 --> 00:50:43,867
recognised that.
He gave me to know it.

534
00:50:44,227 --> 00:50:47,107
What am I to do?
I didn't know it then...

535
00:50:47,507 --> 00:50:50,907
- What do you want?
- It is all my fault.

536
00:50:51,266 --> 00:50:55,506
You must persuade his Grace
the Bishop to stop the trials!

537
00:50:55,746 --> 00:50:57,945
Let me give you a word
of advice, brother.

538
00:50:59,106 --> 00:51:00,945
Hold your tongue!

539
00:51:11,424 --> 00:51:13,344
Yes, write it down!

540
00:51:14,544 --> 00:51:16,504
For these reasons...

541
00:51:21,583 --> 00:51:23,823
after these...

542
00:51:24,783 --> 00:51:27,182
sudden...

543
00:51:28,222 --> 00:51:30,262
and disgusting...

544
00:51:30,622 --> 00:51:32,582
confessions...

545
00:51:32,862 --> 00:51:35,101
we were all the more...

546
00:51:38,061 --> 00:51:40,141
surprised...

547
00:51:40,541 --> 00:51:42,540
dumbfounded... no...

548
00:51:43,421 --> 00:51:47,740
aghast, underline "aghast".

549
00:51:49,339 --> 00:51:51,940
But to arrest the dean
himself...

550
00:51:52,779 --> 00:51:55,219
that won't be such
a simple matter.

551
00:51:55,579 --> 00:51:58,138
It is him or me.

552
00:51:59,179 --> 00:52:01,539
Boblig doesn't judge alone,
after all,

553
00:52:01,738 --> 00:52:04,658
the inquisition tribunal
has to agree as well.

554
00:52:05,257 --> 00:52:09,297
The sheriff has no education,
the revenue officer is timid,

555
00:52:09,657 --> 00:52:13,137
the master forester is a privy
councillor and illiterate.

556
00:52:14,217 --> 00:52:16,457
You can't ask me to do this!

557
00:52:18,296 --> 00:52:20,136
Then I shall just have to ask

558
00:52:20,376 --> 00:52:23,016
for an audience
with the Bishop on my own.

559
00:52:23,256 --> 00:52:27,856
You are not a favourite name
at the episcopal residence.

560
00:52:28,295 --> 00:52:29,775
Why not?

561
00:52:30,135 --> 00:52:33,495
You are too popular with
the people, and a...

562
00:52:34,374 --> 00:52:38,094
I beg you Christopher,
keep away from it, keep quiet.

563
00:52:38,614 --> 00:52:41,294
Mind your own business,
be reasonable.

564
00:52:41,574 --> 00:52:43,973
It's because I am reasonable
that I'm doing it.

565
00:52:44,454 --> 00:52:46,133
Goodbye, Vojtech.

566
00:52:46,373 --> 00:52:50,692
We grew up together but I fear we
no longer understand each other.

567
00:52:50,932 --> 00:52:53,172
Goodbye.

568
00:52:55,412 --> 00:52:58,132
I beg your Grace to give
the matter some thought.

569
00:52:58,452 --> 00:53:01,091
That is the only reason I have
ventured to come forward.

570
00:53:01,332 --> 00:53:04,331
Mister Boblig uses
such inhuman methods

571
00:53:04,691 --> 00:53:07,970
that he can compel anyone
to confess to anything,

572
00:53:08,210 --> 00:53:09,370
however shameful.

573
00:53:09,650 --> 00:53:11,970
It is against all human reason

574
00:53:12,210 --> 00:53:15,410
and the law and teachings
of Jesus Christ.

575
00:53:16,210 --> 00:53:20,249
I feel a great responsibility
before God and my conscience.

576
00:53:21,409 --> 00:53:24,408
It is good that you feel
responsible,

577
00:53:24,848 --> 00:53:27,288
for what goes on in your
deanery.

578
00:53:27,568 --> 00:53:32,048
Only instead of requesting
aid against the heretics,

579
00:53:32,367 --> 00:53:38,247
you intercede for suspected
or known helpmates of the Devil.

580
00:53:38,447 --> 00:53:39,807
Your Grace,

581
00:53:40,047 --> 00:53:43,046
inhumanity and insensitivity
towards the superstitious

582
00:53:43,247 --> 00:53:45,846
and uneducated,
is the real work of the Devil.

583
00:53:46,126 --> 00:53:50,485
And Boblig awakes this devilry
with every action he takes.

584
00:53:50,926 --> 00:53:53,566
You accuse the inquisitor?

585
00:53:54,845 --> 00:53:58,805
I have just received some
bad reports of you.

586
00:54:00,125 --> 00:54:05,444
You know we do not allow priests
to employ young housekeepers.

587
00:54:05,803 --> 00:54:11,243
Yet you, Dean, harbour just
such a young woman in your home.

588
00:54:11,563 --> 00:54:15,763
And not only that. You even take
her with you into society.

589
00:54:16,203 --> 00:54:20,162
How does that accord with your
conscience, and obedience?

590
00:54:23,002 --> 00:54:26,921
My late mother took the girl
in at the deanery.

591
00:54:27,961 --> 00:54:32,560
She stayed with me later
because she had nowhere to go.

592
00:54:33,321 --> 00:54:38,161
We shall give due thought
to everything. You may leave.

593
00:54:55,558 --> 00:54:57,517
Ask Doctor Mayer

594
00:54:57,797 --> 00:55:01,718
to study Advocate Boblig's
indictment document carefully.

595
00:55:02,117 --> 00:55:05,837
It accuses Dean Lautner and
the priest König of witchcraft.

596
00:55:09,716 --> 00:55:11,996
Do you have any orders
for me, Sir?

597
00:55:12,276 --> 00:55:14,876
I wished to speak with you...

598
00:55:16,195 --> 00:55:21,235
in private. Go and make sure
no one is listening.

599
00:55:24,515 --> 00:55:30,274
I wanted to warn you that
two of these witches

600
00:55:30,594 --> 00:55:33,873
have mentioned your name
as well.

601
00:55:34,914 --> 00:55:37,753
They said they saw you
at Peter's Rocks.

602
00:55:38,033 --> 00:55:40,273
And there you were engaged...

603
00:55:41,713 --> 00:55:45,353
in the kind of antics, I would
never have believed of you.

604
00:55:45,552 --> 00:55:48,352
- That's a complete lie.
- Keep calm.

605
00:55:48,592 --> 00:55:51,232
I know one cannot believe
everything.

606
00:55:51,472 --> 00:55:55,111
Sometimes they invent things
to get their revenge.

607
00:55:55,391 --> 00:55:57,671
I shall be grateful to you until
my dying day.

608
00:55:57,871 --> 00:56:00,750
Don't worry. I believe you.

609
00:56:01,070 --> 00:56:04,990
I merely stress that you should
do your job conscientiously.

610
00:56:05,310 --> 00:56:08,549
Here is a list of suspects.
You have to arrest them.

611
00:56:08,910 --> 00:56:12,110
Even if some of them
are your friends.

612
00:56:12,429 --> 00:56:15,909
Anyone suspected of intercourse
with the Devil is not my friend.

613
00:56:16,108 --> 00:56:17,628
Excellent, I thank you.

614
00:56:18,428 --> 00:56:21,988
Marie Sattler, you and Lisa
are accused of witchcraft.

615
00:56:22,268 --> 00:56:24,347
I have orders to arrest you.

616
00:56:29,307 --> 00:56:31,707
Don't worry, we need you
only as a witness.

617
00:56:32,027 --> 00:56:34,427
The dyer's wife Mrs. Sattler
has called you to testify.

618
00:56:35,706 --> 00:56:38,826
Then I'll come,

619
00:56:39,146 --> 00:56:43,066
- but only when the Dean gets back.
- No, you must come at once!

620
00:56:43,705 --> 00:56:46,545
I can't...

621
00:56:49,625 --> 00:56:51,784
Let go of me!

622
00:56:52,425 --> 00:56:54,824
Mister Gaub, let go!

623
00:57:06,023 --> 00:57:09,222
- How much do you want?
- Quiet, don't let anyone hear!

624
00:57:09,462 --> 00:57:13,302
- How much for letting me talk to
my husband? - Sit down!

625
00:57:14,342 --> 00:57:17,421
They seem to have known
you went to see the bishop.

626
00:57:22,741 --> 00:57:24,661
Dear God!

627
00:57:26,900 --> 00:57:30,141
Forgive me for only coming now.
I had to wait until dark.

628
00:57:30,421 --> 00:57:33,140
Everybody's started to watch
everybody else these days.

629
00:57:39,939 --> 00:57:42,019
I bribed the warden.

630
00:57:42,658 --> 00:57:45,258
He brought it to me a few
minutes ago.

631
00:57:51,058 --> 00:57:53,817
You must leave this very night
and escape.

632
00:57:54,097 --> 00:57:55,177
The revenue master told me

633
00:57:55,378 --> 00:57:57,337
they have a denunciation
of you as well there.

634
00:57:57,537 --> 00:58:01,176
Have I worked so hard just
to leave it all to them?

635
00:58:01,377 --> 00:58:03,536
You want to lose your life
for the sake of money?

636
00:58:03,776 --> 00:58:07,576
No, not for money.
But I'm still first councillor!

637
00:58:08,015 --> 00:58:12,936
I've lived a decent life
and done so much for this town!

638
00:58:13,616 --> 00:58:17,054
So now... I'm supposed just
to give in to these scoundrels?

639
00:58:22,494 --> 00:58:25,654
Won't you take a chair,
Sir?

640
00:58:26,734 --> 00:58:28,493
Please.

641
00:58:28,733 --> 00:58:33,413
Ignatius, wine! In honour of our
distinguished visitor.

642
00:58:39,532 --> 00:58:43,652
Squire of Edelstadt, what interest
can you have in imprisoning

643
00:58:43,851 --> 00:58:47,651
the dyer's wife and daughter,
and my housekeeper Susanna?

644
00:58:48,491 --> 00:58:53,211
And why are you so interested
in the fate of these women?

645
00:58:53,531 --> 00:58:57,650
Marie Sattler has always been
a good catholic and honest woman.

646
00:58:58,010 --> 00:59:01,529
So has her daughter
and Susanna Voglick.

647
00:59:01,850 --> 00:59:04,889
- I have known them many years.
- I know, reverend dean.

648
00:59:05,209 --> 00:59:08,249
I am told you often visit
the Sattler family.

649
00:59:08,488 --> 00:59:11,769
Is that supposed to make
things worse for Mistress Sattler?

650
00:59:12,009 --> 00:59:15,128
God forbid, I am doing
all I can for her.

651
00:59:26,007 --> 00:59:29,006
Your good health,
reverend sir.

652
00:59:31,606 --> 00:59:33,606
You harlot!

653
00:59:36,885 --> 00:59:38,926
You whore!

654
00:59:40,725 --> 00:59:43,285
You whore!

655
00:59:48,724 --> 00:59:50,844
Do you think the Inquisition court

656
00:59:51,044 --> 00:59:54,163
gave those witches up to
the flames for no reason?

657
00:59:54,404 --> 00:59:56,403
How did you prove their guilt?

658
00:59:56,643 --> 00:59:59,483
You have books on law
in your own library.

659
01:00:00,082 --> 01:00:04,563
Guilt may be proven by confession
and testimony. Is that not so?

660
01:00:06,642 --> 01:00:10,122
Let me tell you something.

661
01:00:13,281 --> 01:00:17,321
The women you defend have
many guilty collaborators here.

662
01:00:17,681 --> 01:00:20,161
And I am surprised that you,
as spiritual pastor,

663
01:00:20,481 --> 01:00:22,540
did not seek information
on the state of affairs...

664
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,560
by coming directly to me.

665
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,040
Who else is supposed
to be involved?

666
01:00:30,399 --> 01:00:33,518
Why do dislike me, Dean?

667
01:00:36,398 --> 01:00:39,119
What do you have against me?

668
01:00:56,876 --> 01:00:59,956
You read many books, Dean,
but one is enough for me.

669
01:01:00,236 --> 01:01:02,915
- The Bible?
- No. The Hammer of Witches.

670
01:01:03,116 --> 01:01:05,115
The most holy book of all.
It contains everything.

671
01:01:05,355 --> 01:01:08,795
I know the book.
May I read you a few lines?

672
01:01:15,434 --> 01:01:20,554
<i>It is permitted to bring
the accused to confession,</i>

673
01:01:20,873 --> 01:01:24,073
<i>by the promise of a fixed
prison term only.</i>

674
01:01:24,313 --> 01:01:27,393
<i>The judge must fulfill
the promise</i>

675
01:01:27,753 --> 01:01:32,392
<i>and only then burn the witch
after the term has expired.</i>

676
01:01:32,712 --> 01:01:37,031
<i>The judge may also promise
a pardon, and then appoint</i>

677
01:01:37,351 --> 01:01:40,031
<i>another judge in his place
to pronounce the death sentence.</i>

678
01:01:40,311 --> 01:01:44,430
<i>Such action is permitted
by the law of God and man.</i>

679
01:01:44,951 --> 01:01:48,510
An ungodly and cruel book,
don't you think?

680
01:01:49,030 --> 01:01:51,829
A matter of shame for any
Christian country!

681
01:01:52,150 --> 01:01:55,149
Would you ever let anyone
go free, I wonder?

682
01:01:55,429 --> 01:02:00,109
If it could be proven that he or she
was not in league with the devil.

683
01:02:00,389 --> 01:02:03,029
And how does one prove that?

684
01:02:03,429 --> 01:02:06,548
I don't know. Everyone has
always confessed to me.

685
01:02:06,868 --> 01:02:09,148
Perhaps you do not believe me,
but it is the case.

686
01:02:10,627 --> 01:02:13,827
And if I should be mistaken
on occasion,

687
01:02:14,387 --> 01:02:18,547
you as a man of the cloth
know well enough

688
01:02:18,866 --> 01:02:21,506
that even judges are only
instruments in the hand of God.

689
01:02:21,827 --> 01:02:23,826
And what about your conscience?

690
01:02:27,345 --> 01:02:30,265
I am a lawyer, not a theologian.

691
01:02:49,623 --> 01:02:51,943
I want to talk to my mother.

692
01:02:52,462 --> 01:02:54,142
I'll give you money.

693
01:02:54,782 --> 01:02:56,782
Money...

694
01:03:06,301 --> 01:03:08,500
Give me the money then!

695
01:03:15,140 --> 01:03:16,420
Let go or I'll scream!

696
01:03:17,340 --> 01:03:20,500
- No!
- That won't do you any good.

697
01:03:22,539 --> 01:03:26,419
- The prior will make a fuss.
- I'm sorry, soapmaker Prerovsky,

698
01:03:26,738 --> 01:03:30,098
- you're on the list of accused.
- Sattler, come quietly now.

699
01:03:32,178 --> 01:03:34,298
I arrest you by official order.

700
01:03:34,498 --> 01:03:36,978
We're members
of the court tribunal!

701
01:03:38,338 --> 01:03:40,977
- What's going on here?
- I have my orders.

702
01:03:41,857 --> 01:03:47,776
The revenue officer and forester
are suspected of witchcraft.

703
01:03:48,016 --> 01:03:50,616
They are her Ladyship's officers
and under my jurisdiction!

704
01:03:50,896 --> 01:03:54,495
But I am the president
of the Inquisition Tribunal.

705
01:03:54,735 --> 01:03:58,495
Her ladyship does not employ
people in league with the Devil.

706
01:03:58,775 --> 01:04:02,055
If you do not release them
at once, I shall arrest you.

707
01:04:05,214 --> 01:04:09,214
Sheriff, you have championed
associates of the devil,

708
01:04:09,454 --> 01:04:12,973
- and so I hereby arrest you.
- This will cost you your neck!

709
01:04:14,854 --> 01:04:17,373
Write that down in the record.

710
01:04:21,052 --> 01:04:25,132
Before he arrests someone,
he looks into their assets.

711
01:04:25,412 --> 01:04:27,371
The court tribunal judges. Not me.

712
01:04:28,292 --> 01:04:31,931
Trials are ever more costly.
I can't keep on paying for them.

713
01:04:32,291 --> 01:04:35,651
I do what I can for the church,
but times are bad.

714
01:04:36,850 --> 01:04:40,970
The squire of Edelstadt has legal
reasons we do not understand.

715
01:04:43,770 --> 01:04:45,570
When my officers were arrested,

716
01:04:45,769 --> 01:04:48,129
it turned out they had been
cheating me.

717
01:04:48,489 --> 01:04:53,008
Confiscation of their property
means I shall at least get back

718
01:04:53,649 --> 01:04:56,048
part of what they purloined.

719
01:04:58,609 --> 01:05:01,927
Reverend father, I advise you

720
01:05:02,327 --> 01:05:04,368
to be more careful.

721
01:05:05,007 --> 01:05:08,127
You can no longer count
on my protection.

722
01:06:22,119 --> 01:06:26,957
Lucifer's shining horn lights up
the gory carrion feast

723
01:06:27,278 --> 01:06:31,957
and the dance, where devils play
on a horsehead with a cats tail.

724
01:06:33,877 --> 01:06:37,717
Press harder there! There...

725
01:06:42,476 --> 01:06:44,356
So Mistress Sattler, Sattler,
and their daughter

726
01:06:44,996 --> 01:06:49,235
- have now confessed.
- My, that's swollen!

727
01:06:49,515 --> 01:06:53,635
It's that courtroom of theirs.
As cold as a barn.

728
01:06:56,235 --> 01:06:58,195
I'm curious how Lauter will react

729
01:06:58,394 --> 01:07:00,714
when we confront him
with the Sattlers.

730
01:07:00,994 --> 01:07:04,234
I'm curious whether it will
get that far.

731
01:07:04,553 --> 01:07:06,793
Not so hard!

732
01:07:10,513 --> 01:07:14,472
I'm surprised there's been no
answer from the bishop.

733
01:07:14,992 --> 01:07:17,312
What are they playing at
in the consistory?

734
01:07:17,592 --> 01:07:19,911
- More?
- No!

735
01:07:20,471 --> 01:07:23,311
I'm utterly exhausted by it all.

736
01:07:24,871 --> 01:07:27,591
Then you can do my feet.

737
01:07:32,670 --> 01:07:34,990
It's not for me to say,

738
01:07:35,670 --> 01:07:38,949
but I think you're being
too soft with the girl,

739
01:07:40,509 --> 01:07:42,469
with that Susanna wench,

740
01:07:43,429 --> 01:07:46,989
especially when it is her
testimony that would really get

741
01:07:47,188 --> 01:07:48,509
the bishop moving.

742
01:07:50,869 --> 01:07:52,748
Well, you know,

743
01:07:54,668 --> 01:08:00,067
she's not like those filthy
country hags, Ugh.

744
01:08:02,347 --> 01:08:04,066
That one...

745
01:08:06,067 --> 01:08:09,426
why, she could be the model
for a painting of the Madonna.

746
01:08:09,706 --> 01:08:13,586
Left foot first!
You know I've a heart.

747
01:08:13,785 --> 01:08:17,745
Pardon me, sir.
I didn't mean any harm.

748
01:08:22,385 --> 01:08:24,944
What a pity I'm old now.

749
01:08:26,184 --> 01:08:28,424
Don't press so hard!

750
01:08:33,863 --> 01:08:36,943
Can you imagine her naked?

751
01:08:37,903 --> 01:08:40,223
Easily.

752
01:08:40,783 --> 01:08:43,502
But I don't mean
at an interrogation.

753
01:08:45,982 --> 01:08:48,341
What a pity that she must...

754
01:08:48,901 --> 01:08:51,421
well, there's nothing
to be done about it.

755
01:08:52,061 --> 01:08:58,380
If you want to enjoy a flower
you have to pick it, and it wilts.

756
01:09:00,020 --> 01:09:04,780
Just at the loveliest moment
it has to wilt.

757
01:09:07,419 --> 01:09:10,139
Man is but vanity,

758
01:09:12,059 --> 01:09:13,939
beauty too.

759
01:09:14,219 --> 01:09:21,178
It's all just skin deep
and inside meat. Bloody meat.

760
01:09:24,697 --> 01:09:27,097
Blood, putrefaction,

761
01:09:28,097 --> 01:09:30,056
nothing.

762
01:09:30,577 --> 01:09:32,737
Delusion.

763
01:09:53,654 --> 01:09:57,414
In the name of God the Father,
Son and Holy Ghost, Amen.

764
01:10:02,573 --> 01:10:07,292
Do you confess that you took
part in witch assemblies,

765
01:10:07,612 --> 01:10:09,532
as three others testified
about you before their deaths

766
01:10:09,612 --> 01:10:14,012
and four who are still living?

767
01:10:14,331 --> 01:10:17,331
I have never been
on Peter's Rocks.

768
01:10:17,571 --> 01:10:21,090
How many witnesses can
you bring to persuade us

769
01:10:21,330 --> 01:10:24,850
- that the charge is false?
- But I cannot prove

770
01:10:25,130 --> 01:10:27,570
where I have not been
and what I have not done.

771
01:10:30,969 --> 01:10:35,369
I have known you from a child
Susanna, and always liked you.

772
01:10:35,609 --> 01:10:40,528
Tell the truth. If you show
repentance God will forgive you.

773
01:10:42,128 --> 01:10:44,168
Susanna Voglick,

774
01:10:44,448 --> 01:10:48,647
your obstinacy forces the court
to proceed to torture.

775
01:10:51,687 --> 01:10:54,367
Come on, speak.

776
01:10:55,486 --> 01:10:59,086
I can say only that it
is not true.

777
01:10:59,646 --> 01:11:02,166
Master Jokl, bring
the thumbscrews.

778
01:11:39,322 --> 01:11:41,402
Do you wish to make confession?

779
01:11:42,281 --> 01:11:44,161
No!

780
01:11:45,521 --> 01:11:47,040
That's enough!
Leave her alone.

781
01:11:47,281 --> 01:11:49,481
She withstood the torture,
she is innocent.

782
01:11:49,840 --> 01:11:54,200
Her gallant makes her body
insensible. Continue Master Jokl!

783
01:12:00,399 --> 01:12:02,359
Yes.

784
01:12:17,077 --> 01:12:19,477
Will you answer the questions?

785
01:12:22,716 --> 01:12:27,436
Was Dean Lautner with you
at Peter's Rocks?

786
01:12:31,276 --> 01:12:33,356
Dean Lautner?

787
01:12:33,916 --> 01:12:37,115
- Yes.
- Did you practice sinful union?

788
01:12:38,275 --> 01:12:40,154
Yes.

789
01:12:47,034 --> 01:12:51,673
And now I must pay the penalty
for my sins.

790
01:12:54,553 --> 01:12:57,272
The confession of
the accused is sufficient.

791
01:12:57,633 --> 01:13:01,392
It remains for us to determine if
the signum diabolicum is on her.

792
01:13:01,792 --> 01:13:04,032
The devil's mark.

793
01:13:49,187 --> 01:13:51,506
Look well, Ignatius.

794
01:13:52,226 --> 01:13:54,346
Here it is!

795
01:14:07,944 --> 01:14:10,864
Not a drop of blood, Gentlemen.

796
01:14:15,903 --> 01:14:18,663
This is better proof than
any confession.

797
01:14:18,863 --> 01:14:20,463
The signum diabolicum.

798
01:14:23,982 --> 01:14:26,103
It is all a lie.

799
01:14:26,862 --> 01:14:29,342
There is no truth in any of it.

800
01:14:29,542 --> 01:14:30,862
Take her away!

801
01:14:45,660 --> 01:14:47,220
Welcome friend.

802
01:14:49,020 --> 01:14:51,659
Come, the guests are already
waiting.

803
01:14:55,419 --> 01:14:58,459
I hope I shall be praised.

804
01:14:58,698 --> 01:15:00,819
Twenty years old.

805
01:15:03,098 --> 01:15:05,377
I'm glad to see you again

806
01:15:06,337 --> 01:15:08,857
and that you've come
to our festivities.

807
01:15:10,537 --> 01:15:14,937
Vivat decanus Adalbertus Winkler.

808
01:15:15,256 --> 01:15:17,656
Vivat!

809
01:15:51,492 --> 01:15:54,652
A letter from his Grace
the Bishop.

810
01:15:55,172 --> 01:15:58,012
- Is it for me?
- Read it!

811
01:16:16,969 --> 01:16:19,329
It's a beautiful letter.

812
01:16:20,289 --> 01:16:23,408
But you will certainly be able to
tell me precisely what it means.

813
01:16:24,049 --> 01:16:28,808
It means that you are arrested
on the orders of the Bishop.

814
01:16:31,487 --> 01:16:36,807
So you invited me just to be
able to arrest me discretely.

815
01:16:41,047 --> 01:16:43,926
A moment ago you kissed me.

816
01:16:44,246 --> 01:16:47,446
Do you know who else
did that?

817
01:16:49,485 --> 01:16:52,166
I am at your service,
Gentlemen.

818
01:17:12,003 --> 01:17:13,923
I saw them taking him away.

819
01:17:14,323 --> 01:17:16,362
Like a criminal.

820
01:17:17,082 --> 01:17:19,162
I'm off.

821
01:17:19,962 --> 01:17:21,961
Don't you want to come
with me?

822
01:17:22,202 --> 01:17:24,441
Before they come for you too.

823
01:17:26,681 --> 01:17:28,921
I'll be back in a moment.

824
01:17:51,518 --> 01:17:53,718
I shall file a complaint
with the appeal court.

825
01:17:53,918 --> 01:17:55,238
Will you take me to Prague?

826
01:17:58,958 --> 01:18:01,757
Thank you.
It's the last chance.

827
01:18:13,716 --> 01:18:17,555
At the end of Walpurgis Night
Lucifer burns himself.

828
01:18:17,795 --> 01:18:21,155
And his ashes are given
to the witches.

829
01:18:25,835 --> 01:18:27,834
What are you doing?!

830
01:18:33,713 --> 01:18:35,113
You...

831
01:18:35,953 --> 01:18:40,233
bitch of a witch,
what were you thinking?

832
01:18:40,753 --> 01:18:44,792
I answer for you.
You have to testify!

833
01:18:45,112 --> 01:18:47,392
You must testify!

834
01:18:48,231 --> 01:18:50,311
Christopher Lautner,

835
01:18:50,632 --> 01:18:54,031
can you tell us why you
wanted a face-to-face meeting

836
01:18:54,311 --> 01:18:57,911
- with the witnesses against you?
- I hope I shall persuade them.

837
01:18:58,151 --> 01:19:02,471
My friends won't be able to talk
such nonsense to me face.

838
01:19:04,949 --> 01:19:09,829
Marie Sattler, testify
where you saw Dean Lautner

839
01:19:10,150 --> 01:19:12,509
and what you did there.

840
01:19:15,069 --> 01:19:19,628
We used to meet
at witchcraft assemblies

841
01:19:19,948 --> 01:19:24,548
on Peter's Rocks, where I used
to go with my husband Kaspar,

842
01:19:25,387 --> 01:19:31,267
Dean Lautner and his cook
Susanna. There we...

843
01:19:31,587 --> 01:19:34,746
- Marie, why are you saying this?
- There we gorged and danced...

844
01:19:35,066 --> 01:19:37,307
- But that's a lie!
...capered and drank beer.

845
01:19:37,587 --> 01:19:39,946
- Why are you lying?
- Then we fornicated.

846
01:19:40,266 --> 01:19:42,425
Look me in the eye!

847
01:19:42,746 --> 01:19:46,465
The dean lay with his cook
and with me.

848
01:19:59,344 --> 01:20:01,584
Elizabeth Sattler,

849
01:20:02,103 --> 01:20:06,262
tell us about the witches'
wedding in your house.

850
01:20:09,742 --> 01:20:12,102
Two suitors came.

851
01:20:12,423 --> 01:20:15,902
One was a spirit to whom
I gave myself, Hans Peter,

852
01:20:16,301 --> 01:20:19,262
and the second was
the soapmaker Jan Prerovsky.

853
01:20:19,581 --> 01:20:23,540
Before my parents gave
the suitors an answer,

854
01:20:23,820 --> 01:20:28,340
they invited guests from
the coven to our house.

855
01:20:28,580 --> 01:20:31,899
Then Dean Lautner married me
to the evil spirit.

856
01:20:32,140 --> 01:20:35,300
Goddaughter, what bad dream
is this?

857
01:20:35,539 --> 01:20:38,099
I saw it with my own eyes.

858
01:20:38,379 --> 01:20:42,738
You committed fornication
with Susanna and my mother.

859
01:20:43,018 --> 01:20:47,298
- Then my father lay with me.
- Do you know what you are saying?

860
01:20:48,458 --> 01:20:53,258
You know I always did
my best for you.

861
01:20:55,977 --> 01:21:00,336
Kaspar Sattler, do you recognise
Dean Christopher Lautner?

862
01:21:02,936 --> 01:21:04,576
Yes.

863
01:21:04,856 --> 01:21:08,456
Kaspar, I beg you,
speak the truth, at least you.

864
01:21:09,655 --> 01:21:13,295
The dean was in league
with an evil spirit.

865
01:21:13,655 --> 01:21:18,174
You're still annoyed, because I
opposed your daughter's marriage.

866
01:21:21,094 --> 01:21:25,454
Once he crowned my wife
queen of the witches.

867
01:21:26,373 --> 01:21:30,133
And then played to us on
the violin to celebrate.

868
01:21:30,773 --> 01:21:31,972
Kaspar Sattler,

869
01:21:32,173 --> 01:21:36,372
is it enmity to the dean that
speaks from your lips?

870
01:21:37,492 --> 01:21:41,451
No. We were good friends
for many years.

871
01:21:41,972 --> 01:21:46,851
But we both served an unclean
spirit and must pay for it.

872
01:21:47,052 --> 01:21:51,571
Not a single word is true.
You know it.

873
01:21:51,890 --> 01:21:55,490
I denied it too at first
but then I gave up.

874
01:21:55,770 --> 01:21:59,530
To save myself greater torture.

875
01:22:01,290 --> 01:22:04,649
Do you think God
will forgive me?

876
01:22:11,688 --> 01:22:13,888
I understand everything.

877
01:22:14,208 --> 01:22:17,527
Forgive me,
if I ever hurt you.

878
01:22:17,768 --> 01:22:21,567
I am not angry with you
and I forgive you everything.

879
01:22:23,887 --> 01:22:26,807
Stop this play-acting!

880
01:22:27,087 --> 01:22:29,166
We know everything
about your crimes.

881
01:22:29,446 --> 01:22:33,926
Do you admit the crimes to which
the witnesses testified?

882
01:22:34,525 --> 01:22:36,445
I admit nothing!

883
01:22:36,686 --> 01:22:39,045
Was your housekeeper with you

884
01:22:39,245 --> 01:22:42,565
at the witches wedding
at the Sattlers?

885
01:22:42,805 --> 01:22:46,644
We have been to no witch
wedding. Neither she nor I.

886
01:22:50,124 --> 01:22:55,043
Who awoke feelings of adulthood
in her? Tell us the truth!

887
01:22:57,163 --> 01:22:59,163
I did.

888
01:23:04,562 --> 01:23:07,202
Why did you not get
rid of her as time went by?

889
01:23:08,521 --> 01:23:11,401
I wished to see her first
settled and provided for.

890
01:23:11,721 --> 01:23:17,241
We made an agreement and
ended all bodily relations.

891
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,000
And that was all?

892
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:28,199
No agreement on a magical
pact, perhaps?

893
01:23:28,639 --> 01:23:31,639
- No!
- Do you play the violin?

894
01:23:32,039 --> 01:23:35,998
- Yes.
- A priest and he plays the violin!

895
01:23:39,638 --> 01:23:43,797
Do you admit what the witches of
Losiny and Sumperk have described?

896
01:23:44,038 --> 01:23:45,238
No!

897
01:23:45,477 --> 01:23:48,957
But Dean Lautner,
whom are we to believe?

898
01:23:49,197 --> 01:23:53,637
- Thirty-six persons, or one?
- One just person.

899
01:23:54,317 --> 01:23:57,516
So you can prove
your innocence.

900
01:23:58,076 --> 01:23:59,835
I cannot.

901
01:24:00,156 --> 01:24:02,396
Nobody can see into my conscience,

902
01:24:02,595 --> 01:24:04,715
nor I into another's conscience.

903
01:24:07,715 --> 01:24:10,794
Why did you lock yourself in your
library before your arrest?

904
01:24:10,994 --> 01:24:12,234
What were you afraid of?

905
01:24:13,394 --> 01:24:17,714
I was afraid of nothing.
I was studying. That is all.

906
01:24:18,793 --> 01:24:23,193
Do you want to hear what Susanna
Voglick has to say of you?

907
01:24:24,792 --> 01:24:28,713
Yes I do. I hope
she will speak the truth.

908
01:24:44,670 --> 01:24:46,831
Susanna!

909
01:24:52,710 --> 01:24:55,029
Susanna Voglick, tell
the court

910
01:24:55,630 --> 01:24:58,589
what you did
at Peter's Rocks.

911
01:24:58,869 --> 01:25:01,509
I will tell the whole truth.

912
01:25:06,588 --> 01:25:10,187
It was my misfortune to have come
to the deanery at all.

913
01:25:11,307 --> 01:25:13,987
I should have gone
begging instead.

914
01:25:14,267 --> 01:25:18,787
- Susanna, you can't mean...
- Tell us about Peter's Rocks!

915
01:25:20,346 --> 01:25:26,066
Peter's Rocks... I know.
One moment, and I'll get right.

916
01:25:26,426 --> 01:25:33,745
Yes, we gorged there, drank,
and capered and danced and...

917
01:25:34,344 --> 01:25:40,264
fornicated with evil spirits and
people and it's a sin and a shame.

918
01:25:40,944 --> 01:25:46,344
The dean did it with me and
with Mistress Sattler...

919
01:25:47,623 --> 01:25:50,143
Yes, yes, it's the truth.

920
01:25:50,383 --> 01:25:54,222
I came to the deanery and there
they made me into a witch.

921
01:25:54,662 --> 01:25:57,942
And so I have to die.

922
01:26:02,102 --> 01:26:07,101
Susanna, for the love of God
forgive me I beg. I...

923
01:26:08,261 --> 01:26:11,620
I know it is all because of me.

924
01:26:16,500 --> 01:26:18,659
Calm yourself!

925
01:26:19,940 --> 01:26:23,219
Repeat only what you
have already told us.

926
01:26:23,459 --> 01:26:27,779
You have to say it to the dean.
He doesn't want to admit it.

927
01:26:28,098 --> 01:26:29,738
No...

928
01:26:30,418 --> 01:26:32,298
No, I can't.

929
01:26:32,578 --> 01:26:35,178
I can't, no, I can't!

930
01:26:35,937 --> 01:26:37,977
No, no...

931
01:26:39,097 --> 01:26:41,137
I can't, no!

932
01:26:43,456 --> 01:26:46,536
She is completely insane. Don't
you see she has lost her mind?

933
01:26:46,776 --> 01:26:50,136
It's not unusual. It shouldn't
lead us astray.

934
01:26:50,416 --> 01:26:53,576
She has just been silenced
by the devil. Come and look!

935
01:26:54,615 --> 01:26:58,975
That red weal! Her black gallant
has sealed her lips!

936
01:26:59,214 --> 01:27:05,495
A page Satanas in nomine Patria
et Filií et Spiritus sancti Amen.

937
01:27:05,974 --> 01:27:08,214
Your work, Gentlemen.

938
01:27:08,693 --> 01:27:11,173
A work pleasing to God!

939
01:27:19,333 --> 01:27:21,652
I love you just as
I always did

940
01:27:21,972 --> 01:27:26,012
and I forgive you for what you
said against me, Susanna.

941
01:27:26,292 --> 01:27:28,691
Susanna...

942
01:27:29,052 --> 01:27:30,931
Susanna!

943
01:27:36,930 --> 01:27:39,850
Christopher Lautner,
do you admit your guilt?

944
01:27:40,090 --> 01:27:41,810
No!

945
01:27:42,810 --> 01:27:46,569
Nor is the testimony
of the Sattler family true,

946
01:27:46,809 --> 01:27:48,529
nor is there any truth,

947
01:27:48,769 --> 01:27:52,929
in the testimony of the girl
you robbed of her reason!

948
01:27:53,808 --> 01:27:58,128
So far we have treated you too
gently. We shall be more severe.

949
01:27:58,408 --> 01:28:00,247
Your commission has power,

950
01:28:00,448 --> 01:28:03,608
but power and truth
are two different things.

951
01:28:03,928 --> 01:28:06,247
Not to mention the fact
that you...

952
01:28:10,126 --> 01:28:13,326
Look here, the Devil can take
on anyone's likeness.

953
01:28:13,606 --> 01:28:15,326
Suppose he is innocent

954
01:28:15,606 --> 01:28:19,205
and the Devil just took on
his form at the meeting?

955
01:28:19,485 --> 01:28:22,446
So it was a mere duplicate
of this man?

956
01:28:22,685 --> 01:28:24,085
That's not a duplicate.

957
01:28:24,405 --> 01:28:27,844
I've forty years experience.
That's the original.

958
01:28:28,325 --> 01:28:30,604
These old hags still
don't have better things to do?

959
01:28:30,925 --> 01:28:34,523
No, Your Lordship, but the trial
is endless, forty defendants...

960
01:28:34,803 --> 01:28:38,084
- and Judge Hutter has lodged
a protest. - Against what?

961
01:28:38,324 --> 01:28:40,643
Against the investigation
methods.

962
01:28:40,883 --> 01:28:44,523
He claims the confessions are
extorted under severe torture.

963
01:28:44,803 --> 01:28:48,083
It's the usual method
in the inquisition court.

964
01:28:48,363 --> 01:28:53,562
But this Boblig uses the same
methods as the inquisitors

965
01:28:53,802 --> 01:28:57,041
- at the beginning of the century.
- Did those people confess or not?

966
01:28:57,241 --> 01:28:58,761
They did, so what's the trouble?

967
01:29:04,001 --> 01:29:06,480
You know, Mister Secretary,
We really cannot bother

968
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:13,079
His lmperial Highness with this.
He has other cares.

969
01:29:13,399 --> 01:29:16,599
Dreadful finances...
You know what I mean?

970
01:29:16,879 --> 01:29:20,119
Above all we must maintain
peace and order on our estates.

971
01:29:20,478 --> 01:29:22,878
And the Turks approaching Vienna...

972
01:29:23,278 --> 01:29:25,518
Well, things will no doubt
turn out all right.

973
01:29:25,798 --> 01:29:27,998
Marvelous cut, your Lordship.

974
01:29:29,358 --> 01:29:33,557
- I hope I'll crush Martinic today.
- Of course, your Lordship.

975
01:30:01,594 --> 01:30:03,514
Marie Sattlerwas
a pleasant surprise,

976
01:30:03,993 --> 01:30:07,633
dying so well.

977
01:30:08,393 --> 01:30:11,473
Up to the last moment

978
01:30:11,792 --> 01:30:13,992
her eyes were turned
to heaven.

979
01:30:14,312 --> 01:30:16,592
- Just one little hitch.
- Yes.

980
01:30:16,872 --> 01:30:22,631
It took the executioner three
hacks to get Sattler's head off.

981
01:30:22,871 --> 01:30:24,831
Was Sattler drunk?

982
01:30:26,310 --> 01:30:28,191
What do you mean?

983
01:30:32,670 --> 01:30:35,470
Dyer Sattler signed his last
will yesterday.

984
01:30:35,750 --> 01:30:39,310
Didn't he have anything better
to do before dying?

985
01:30:41,189 --> 01:30:43,829
The trial will be paid for
out of his property.

986
01:30:44,148 --> 01:30:46,788
And since the confiscated
cash isn't enough

987
01:30:47,068 --> 01:30:50,228
his house and workshop will
have to be sold.

988
01:30:51,308 --> 01:30:53,428
But for an official price

989
01:30:53,708 --> 01:30:55,588
that's a third of the value.

990
01:30:55,908 --> 01:30:58,507
As far as I know you were
the first interested party.

991
01:30:58,787 --> 01:31:01,667
And I also know what's
fitting in the circumstances.

992
01:31:04,986 --> 01:31:07,266
Forgive us our trespasses.

993
01:31:09,106 --> 01:31:11,585
And forgive my sin and guilt.

994
01:31:13,945 --> 01:31:17,985
I did it all in Thy name.

995
01:31:21,904 --> 01:31:25,304
What is your view,
is Christopher Lautner guilty?

996
01:31:25,744 --> 01:31:28,983
You are a member
of the Inquisition commission.

997
01:31:29,303 --> 01:31:32,143
Answer entirely according
to your conscience.

998
01:31:32,423 --> 01:31:34,263
The Squire of Edelstadt
has gathered

999
01:31:34,463 --> 01:31:36,703
a lot of convincing
evidence against him.

1000
01:31:36,983 --> 01:31:39,783
Your personal opinion,
if you please!

1001
01:31:40,743 --> 01:31:44,422
I am not absolutely persuaded
of his guilt.

1002
01:31:45,301 --> 01:31:47,342
I have no answer to the question

1003
01:31:47,661 --> 01:31:51,740
why Dean Lautner would
commit such crimes.

1004
01:31:52,020 --> 01:31:54,181
And your view, brother?

1005
01:31:54,541 --> 01:31:59,020
I regret, your Grace, that
I am of the opposite opinion.

1006
01:31:59,340 --> 01:32:01,700
Thirty-six witnesses

1007
01:32:01,899 --> 01:32:05,099
have confirmed his involvement
in witchcraft.

1008
01:32:05,339 --> 01:32:08,419
Lautner has not managed
to overturn their testimony.

1009
01:32:08,699 --> 01:32:13,698
Which leaves us with no
alternative but to use torture.

1010
01:32:15,898 --> 01:32:18,578
Your opinion, brother?

1011
01:32:21,738 --> 01:32:23,897
The question here is...

1012
01:32:25,217 --> 01:32:30,336
whether torture is the most
reliable means...

1013
01:32:33,216 --> 01:32:35,176
to discover the truth.

1014
01:32:35,656 --> 01:32:38,736
The greatest authorities have
demonstrated that a delinquent

1015
01:32:38,935 --> 01:32:41,376
can keep silent only with the aid
of the Devil.

1016
01:32:45,575 --> 01:32:48,654
You have not been very
enlightening.

1017
01:32:48,974 --> 01:32:53,294
I have a great interest in the
case because Lautner is a priest.

1018
01:32:53,774 --> 01:32:55,813
Therefore let God decide.

1019
01:32:56,014 --> 01:32:59,493
I give my permission for
Christopher Lautner

1020
01:32:59,693 --> 01:33:04,012
- to be subjected to the usual form
of torture. - Amen.

1021
01:33:09,932 --> 01:33:11,532
No!

1022
01:33:11,971 --> 01:33:14,532
I will not confess!

1023
01:33:25,010 --> 01:33:26,650
That's enough, Jokl!
The accused nodded,

1024
01:33:26,970 --> 01:33:32,169
which is equivalent to verbal
confession. Record it!

1025
01:33:32,530 --> 01:33:34,929
Christof Alois Lautner...

1026
01:33:35,249 --> 01:33:36,969
on this day...

1027
01:33:37,208 --> 01:33:39,408
voluntarily confessed...

1028
01:33:40,448 --> 01:33:42,928
that he was in league
with the Devil.

1029
01:33:46,088 --> 01:33:50,287
And it was a lie.
What I confessed was untrue.

1030
01:33:50,647 --> 01:33:55,687
- Everyone saw your confession.
- They saw a man forced to lie.

1031
01:33:55,967 --> 01:33:59,806
I am a sinner, but I have never
indulged in magic.

1032
01:34:00,086 --> 01:34:02,766
Master Jokl,
Stretch him on the ladder!

1033
01:34:03,086 --> 01:34:06,686
- That's enough for today.
- Don't interrupt my investigation.

1034
01:34:06,925 --> 01:34:08,385
According to the Inquisition
regulations

1035
01:34:08,525 --> 01:34:11,325
the third torture should
not exceed half an hour.

1036
01:34:11,565 --> 01:34:16,884
And different types of torture
may not be used in succession.

1037
01:34:17,164 --> 01:34:20,244
The testimony of 36 people
constitutes convincing proof

1038
01:34:20,524 --> 01:34:25,483
and torture is unnecessary.
The nod is quite sufficient.

1039
01:34:25,723 --> 01:34:30,363
Besides I would point out
that if claims are contradictory

1040
01:34:30,602 --> 01:34:36,321
like Lautner's yes and then no,
either may be accepted.

1041
01:34:36,922 --> 01:34:40,641
Do you consider the claims
of the accused

1042
01:34:40,921 --> 01:34:43,401
to be as credible as
the testimony of witnesses?

1043
01:34:47,401 --> 01:34:50,001
For today the examination
by torture is over.

1044
01:34:50,841 --> 01:34:54,680
If you refuse to confess,
you will be stretched on the rack.

1045
01:34:58,920 --> 01:35:02,839
Don't you think we might
let him go?

1046
01:35:03,119 --> 01:35:06,199
He has made no admission
after three degrees of torture.

1047
01:35:06,439 --> 01:35:10,558
Nobody could stand such pain
if he were really guilty.

1048
01:35:10,877 --> 01:35:13,878
He withstands it all
with the help of the devil, Dean.

1049
01:35:22,276 --> 01:35:27,156
How much longer, oh Lord,
will you forget me?

1050
01:35:27,716 --> 01:35:33,275
Remember me, oh Lord, because
the machinations of the grave,

1051
01:35:33,595 --> 01:35:35,395
surround me,
and have divided me.

1052
01:35:35,715 --> 01:35:39,635
My bones are as
melted wax.

1053
01:35:40,234 --> 01:35:43,074
Be mindful of me, my God.

1054
01:35:43,394 --> 01:35:46,914
My God, why hast Thou
forsaken me?

1055
01:35:50,033 --> 01:35:51,553
Christopher...

1056
01:36:02,432 --> 01:36:05,312
Forgive me, Christopher.

1057
01:36:05,751 --> 01:36:08,911
I have resigned my seat
on the Inquisition commission.

1058
01:36:09,351 --> 01:36:11,991
I cannot be your judge.

1059
01:36:12,271 --> 01:36:15,191
Look at me, Christopher!

1060
01:36:17,670 --> 01:36:23,830
So, Dean, you give up your
activities on the commission,

1061
01:36:24,109 --> 01:36:28,829
so as not to have to take a stand
against a foul murderer.

1062
01:36:29,628 --> 01:36:32,668
No, I am sick.

1063
01:36:34,748 --> 01:36:38,148
I am glad I am not alone.

1064
01:36:43,627 --> 01:36:46,027
Can you forgive me?

1065
01:36:46,707 --> 01:36:49,266
I cannot judge you.

1066
01:36:49,706 --> 01:36:53,465
We are both poor
weak wretches.

1067
01:37:16,503 --> 01:37:19,903
Is what you confessed to
yesterday, true or untrue?

1068
01:37:21,582 --> 01:37:25,142
- Yes, I confess.
- You confess to everything

1069
01:37:25,422 --> 01:37:30,501
- that the 36 witches said you had done.
- Yes, yes...

1070
01:37:33,101 --> 01:37:37,220
Who else did you see on
Peter's Rock? Do not deny it!

1071
01:37:38,941 --> 01:37:45,180
I confess I was in such
close league with the devil

1072
01:37:45,460 --> 01:37:50,859
that at my request he conjured
a great darkness and storm,

1073
01:37:51,059 --> 01:37:53,059
and hail and thunder.

1074
01:37:54,259 --> 01:37:59,938
And for that reason I did
not recognise anyone present.

1075
01:38:01,058 --> 01:38:05,298
- Besides those who are dead.
- So sign the record.

1076
01:38:19,896 --> 01:38:23,096
With all his power the devil strives
for dominion over the world.

1077
01:38:23,376 --> 01:38:27,015
But God has allowed us
to uncover this unclean nest

1078
01:38:27,255 --> 01:38:32,374
and granted us the honour of
trampling this nest under foot

1079
01:38:32,694 --> 01:38:35,254
and purifying it by fire.

1080
01:38:42,894 --> 01:38:47,452
We have come, brother, to prepare
you with prayers

1081
01:38:47,653 --> 01:38:49,733
for the road that awaits you...

1082
01:38:53,132 --> 01:38:57,771
You wouldn't have a little
tobacco for me, Father?

1083
01:39:20,369 --> 01:39:22,089
You do wrong, brother.

1084
01:39:23,889 --> 01:39:26,408
It is possible, Father,

1085
01:39:26,888 --> 01:39:29,928
That was always my way.

1086
01:39:31,047 --> 01:39:35,767
- I have sinned much.
- Think on your salvation.

1087
01:39:36,967 --> 01:39:39,726
I have been thinking
of that for a long time.

1088
01:39:40,526 --> 01:39:43,886
But I do not have much
time left.

1089
01:39:44,886 --> 01:39:49,086
We shall stay until morning and
pray with you through the night.

1090
01:39:49,445 --> 01:39:52,805
- When will I get some sleep?
- Are you not afraid of God?

1091
01:39:53,565 --> 01:39:56,564
Oh yes indeed... yes.

1092
01:39:58,845 --> 01:40:01,404
But I do not wish...

1093
01:40:02,484 --> 01:40:04,684
to speak about Him with you.

1094
01:40:30,720 --> 01:40:32,721
They are afraid of you now,

1095
01:40:32,920 --> 01:40:36,280
because you don't stand in
one line with them.

1096
01:40:40,680 --> 01:40:44,400
Suspicion might fall on any
of them, but...

1097
01:40:47,998 --> 01:40:50,078
Not on me!

1098
01:40:52,198 --> 01:40:55,117
Not... me.

1099
01:41:09,077 --> 01:41:11,276
I have already stepped
forward!

1100
01:41:15,476 --> 01:41:17,876
I'm riding high!

1101
01:41:19,955 --> 01:41:22,075
It just takes courage!

1102
01:41:22,875 --> 01:41:26,034
A firm goal and no scruples!

1103
01:41:26,594 --> 01:41:29,514
Because I'm no ordinary man.

1104
01:41:30,314 --> 01:41:36,673
I'm no longer an ordinary man.
I'm already... at the top!

1105
01:41:39,673 --> 01:41:42,872
Our Father, Who art in Heaven,
forgive us.

1106
01:41:44,312 --> 01:41:46,792
No, do not forgive us
our trespasses!

1107
01:41:47,072 --> 01:41:49,031
Not them, nor me.

1108
01:41:49,272 --> 01:41:54,311
Because in your name
we have sinned against man.

1109
01:41:54,500 --> 01:41:57,900
Mr. Boblig of Edelstadt lived happily
ever after. And get married.