Anna Goldin, the Last Witch
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A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently through supernatural means. Göldi at first escaped arrest, but the authorities of the Canton of Glarus advertised a reward for her capture in the Zürcher Zeitung on February 9, 1782. Göldi was arrested and under torture, admitted to entering in a pact with the Devil, who had appeared to her as a black dog. She withdrew her confession after the torture ended, but was sentenced on June 18, 1782 to execution by decapitation. The charges were officially of "poisoning" rather than witchcraft, even though the law at the time did not impose the death penalty for non-lethal poisoning.
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Part of Sabbath
6 films
Cast
21 people
Cornelia Kempers
Anna Goeldin
Also in
Eichmanns Ende
Meine Tochter Anne Frank
Luca Kurt
Anne-Miggeli Tschudi
Urs Aebersold
Eveline Hasler
Gertrud Pinkus
Rüdiger Vogler
Dr. Tschudi
Known for
Alice in the Cities
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Monika Aubele
Ursula Andermatt
Frau Tschudi
Also in
Der letzte Sommer
Beware of People
Stephan Portmann
Lutz Kleinselbeck
Dominique Horwitz
Kubli
Known for
Stalingrad
Shooting Dogs
Anne-Marie Blanc
Frau Zwicky
Also in
The Unburdening
The Abused Love Letters
Gertrud Pinkus Director · Eveline Hasler Writer Stephan Portmann Writer
First release August 1, 1991 · Produced in Germany, Switzerland · Production Alpha-Film (II), Bayerischer Rundfunk
Production
BR
Production
Alpha-Film (II)
Production
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Production
Schweizer Fernsehen (SF)
Production
Germany · Switzerland
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Anna Göldin, letzte Hexe
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Switzerland · August 1, 1991
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
January 1, 1992 · Max Ophüls Film Festival
Portugal
September 1, 1992 · Figueira da Foz Film Festival
Switzerland
February 6, 2020 · Digital · filmo.ch | digitally restored in 4K HDR
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