A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller. The miller and his son are the descendants of an old family whose ancestral home burned down a century ago, but was rebuilt from scratch. The miller inherited much of his knowledge about the land, water, and a building's stability from generations of family experience. His reputation for finding water and predicting when a structure might collapse have come to the attention of the Inquisition -surely he must be in league with the Devil.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Filmové studio Barrandov
Keywords
- small town
- based on novel or book
- religion
- black and white
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Vítězslav Vejražka as The Burnt Miller
Miroslav Macháček as Chaplain Probus
Čestmír Řanda as Regent of Valec
Vlastimil Hašek as Filip the Hunter
Vít Olmer as The Miller's Son Jan
Karla Chadimová as Martina
František Kovářík as Sheep Shepherd
Bedřich Karen as Bishop Dittrichstejn
Top Crew
František Vláčil · Director
Miloš Václav Kratochvíl · Screenplay
František A. Dvořák · Screenplay
Alfred Technik · Novel
Zdeněk Liška · Composer
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