The Devil’s Trap (1962)

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.
František Vláčil, Milan Kadlec, Jaroslav Beránek
Vítězslav Vejražka, Miroslav Macháček, Čestmír Řanda, Vlastimil Hašek, Vít Olmer, Karla Chadimová, František Kovářík, Bedřich Karen, Josef Hlinomaz, Jaroslav Moučka, Zdeněk Kutil, Ladislav Kazda, Dagmar Kofroňová, Zlatomír Vacek, Jiří Vršťala, Richard Záhorský, Viktor Očásek, František Nechyba, Milan Kindl, Jiřina Bílá, Jiří Bělohoubek, Antonín Novotný, Monika Indingerová, Pavla Polášková, J. Skružný
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