The Devil's Elixirs (1973)
Young seminary student Franziskus has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie, whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie.
Director: Ralf Kirsten
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Benjamin Besson as Franziskus |
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Jaroslava Schallerová as Aurelie |
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Andrzej Kopiczyński as Viktorin |
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Milena Dvorská as Euphemie |
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Maja Komorowska as Abbess |
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Fred Düren as |
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Krzysztof Chamiec as |
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Norbert Christian as |
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Radovan Lukavský as |
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Jürgen Kluckert as |
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Edmund Fetting as |
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Gerhard Bienert as |
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Peter Dommisch as |
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Angela Brunner as |
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Zdena Burdová as |
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Monika Pietsch as |
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Klaus-Peter Pleßow as |
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Annette Roth as |
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Klaus-Rudolf Weber as |
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Petr Skarke as |
| Directing | Ralf Kirsten | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Inge Kistner | Costume Design |
| Art | Jiří Rulík | Set Decoration |
| Writing | Erich Sojka | Writer |
| Production | Jiří Ulrich | Unit Production Manager |
| Art | Klaus Selignow | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Miroslav Kubišta | First Assistant Director |
| Production | Jiřina Vaňková | Assistant Production Manager |
| Camera | Zuzana Folkertová | Clapper Loader |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frank Zucholowsky | Makeup & Hair |
| Production | Karl-Heinz Marzahn | Unit Production Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ursula Funk | Makeup & Hair |
| Crew | Gudrun Deubener | Dramaturgy |
| Crew | Michael Vollandt | Stunts |
| Camera | Frank Bredow | Assistant Camera |
| Costume & Make-Up | Brigitte Welzel | Makeup & Hair |
| Art | Miloš Osvald | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nita Romanečová | Costumer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jiří Šimon | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Waldemar Pokrywka | Makeup & Hair |
| Directing | Doris Borkmann | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Dieter Adam | Production Design |
| Production | Walter Hunger | Unit Production Manager |
| Production | Renée Lavecká | Unit Production Manager |
| Crew | Harald Engelmann | Choreographer |
| Editing | Bärbel Bauersfeld | Editor |
| Writing | Brigitte Kirsten | Writer |
| Writing | E. T. A. Hoffmann | Novel |
| Camera | Claus Neumann | Director of Photography |
| Production | Manfred Renger | Production Manager |
| Sound | Konrad Walle | Sound |
| Sound | Georg Gutschmidt | Sound |
| Production | Jaroslav Řeřicha | Production Manager |
| Sound | André Asriel | Original Music Composer |
