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The Devil's Trap (Ďáblova past)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: František Vláčil
Screenplay: Miloš Václav Kratochvíl, František A. Dvořák
Director of Photography: Rudolf Milič
Top Cast
Vítězslav Vejražka
Mlynár Spálený
Miroslav Macháček
Kaplan Probus
Čestmír Řanda
Regent Valecský z Valce
Vlastimil Hašek
Myslivec Filip
Vít Olmer
Mlynářův syn Jan
Karla Chadimová
Martina
František Kovářík
Pastýř ovcí
Bedřich Karen
Biskup Dittrichstejn
