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Nan
1h 50m
1993
6.125 /10 (12)

Overview

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

Country : Italy
Languages : Italiano
Released Date: 1993-04-09

Top Billed Cast

Luigi Diberti

Lord of Malfole

Arnaldo Ninchi

Folco

Massimo Bellinzoni

Baino

Dalia Zagni

Rozal (as Dalia Lahav)

Lorella Morlotti

Venturina

Massimo Sarchielli

Margherita's Father

Brizio Montinaro

Lord of Campodose

Marcello Cesena

Agateo

Consuelo Ferrara

Abbess

Nando Gazzolo

Narrator (voice)

Eugenia Abbati

Miriam Abutori

Eleonora Alessandrelli

Margherita

Ilaria Amaldi

Diana Anselmo

Anna

Santo Bellina

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