Release, runtime and language

1993 · 110 mins · Italian

Directed by

Pupi Avati

Starring

Massimo Sarchielli, Vincenzo Crocitti, Arnaldo Ninchi, Rodolfo Corsato, Rosa Pianeta, Santo Bellina

Set in the Middle Ages, an itinerant executioner hires a young apprentice, instructing him in the grim techniques of torture and capital punishment. At the same time, a girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent, where she is raised in the faith. The story follows their intersecting paths amid a world of medieval superstition, religious authority, and harsh justice.