Why we chose it
In 18th-century Austria, women killed so that they could confess, be absolved and go to the scaffold, because suicide meant eternal damnation. The directing duo found their testimonies in real interrogation records, and the lead actress wrote the music for this suffocating folk horror.
Synopsis
In Austria in 1750, Agnes marries Wolf and leaves her mother’s home for his cottage at the edge of the forest. Her wedding gift is a severed human finger, said to help a woman conceive, yet her husband won’t touch her. With work from dawn, a mother-in-law always watching and no one in the village to talk to, Agnes keeps returning to the place where a woman was executed.
Berlin International Film Festival
Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award
2024
European Film Awards
Best European Costume Designer
2024
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