In 1630, Vienna medicine professor Cornelius Weinmann returns to his Bamberg home for his dying father. He finds the city in the bloody grip of the luxurious, ruthless prince-bishop's witch-hunters. The slightest indication, like a feverish schoolboy's confused impressions of his mother's 'devil-legged' lover, start series of arrests, torture, pyre-executions and further arrest. Cornelius saves the bishop's life by operating his kidney stone, yet is pressed into a shift a 'medical' witch-suspect inspections. He calls his marker-wish when his childhood lover is arrested, while the terrorized city councilors ponder whether to risk an appeal to the imperial supreme court in Vienna, for which the confessor smuggles out evidence.—KGF Vissers imdb.com
In 1630, Vienna medicine professor Cornelius Weinmann returns to his Bamberg home for his dying father. He finds the city in the bloody grip of the luxurious, ruthless prince-bishop's witch-hunters. The slightest indication, like a feverish schoolboy's confused impressions of his mother's 'devil-legged' lover, start series of arrests, torture,...