• Director: Simon Aeby
  • Release Year: 2005
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Hungary, Germany
  • Language: English

The Headsman (Shadow of the Sword or Henker)

Description

Martin must decide whether he will go through with execution of his childhood friend, condemned for heresy (and political expediency), or risk bringing the wrath of the Inquisition down upon his own and his family's head.

Themes

Holy Roman Empire (962 – 1806), Protestant Reformation, Lutheran Reformation, Protestantism, Religious intolerance, Loyalties, Catholicism, Capital punishment, Monasteries