A troubled marksman, desperate to secure love and status, turns to forbidden magic in a rural community ruled by superstition and ritual. This stark television adaptation strips Weber’s Romantic opera of spectacle, recasting it as a bleak folk-horror parable about fear, failure, and the cost of choosing certainty over conscience.
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Cast
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Michael Ebbecke
Ottokar
Also in
Alcina
Die Soldaten
Nany Johnson
Agathe
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Ulrike Sonntag
Ännchen
Also in
Die Zauberflöte
Siegmund Nimsgern
Also in
The Emperor of Atlantis
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Uwe Heilmann
Max
Carsten H. Stabell
Eremit
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Thomas Mohr
Kilian
Also in
Die Zauberflöte
The Eternal Road
Albrecht Dennhardt
Samiel
Also in
Wut im Bauch
Wie war ich, Doris?
Loriot
Self - Presenter
Known for
Pappa ante Portas
Ödipussi
Loriot Director · Johann Friedrich Kind Writer
First release August 17, 1988 · Produced in Germany
Production
Süddeutscher Rundfunk
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Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · August 17, 1988
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