Offscreen
Witches' Hammer
20 March 2017 - 21h00
OTAKAR VÁVRA
CZ, 1970, 35mm, VOST FR & ANG / FR & ENG OND, 103'
Based on a series of actual witch trials in the 17th century, this shocking film is gorgeously shot in stark black and white, thus mirroring the moral schism of its characters. Both a genre film and a political fable, its anticlerical message hides a barely veiled critique on the totalitarian regime.