If you have seen any Polish, Czecholovakian, Hungarian film from the fifties to the early nineties, you'll probably have notice that all those films are rather austere, gloomy, dark, rough; at least not made for the bulk of western audiences. This one belongs to that kind. It looks as a mix u between Ken Russel's THE DEVILS, or WITCHFINDER GENERAL or MARK OF THE DEVIL, but in a bit more talkative, intellectual way. The good thing about this topic, is that's a sort of critism of the Communist, oppressor regime. So, no propaganda message here. Not for the squeamish at least.
Review of Witchhammer
