The Devil's Trap

(1962)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 33 votes

Genres: History, Drama, Mystery

Year: 1962

Runtime: 87 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: František Vláčil

Cast: Vítězslav Vejražka, Miroslav Macháček, Čestmír Řanda, Vlastimil Hašek, Vít Olmer, Karla Chadimová, František Kovářík, Bedřich Karen, Йозеф Глиномаз, Jaroslav Moučka

Plot

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.