Witches

Witches (1949)

Horror

The deceased owner of a medieval castle stipulated the following in his will: The heir to his mighty estate would be the elder of the two stepsisters, Katharina and Margrit von Kronberg, namely Margrit, if she married Heinz Wagner, a cousin who had just returned from captivity. When Margrit observed Katharina and Heinz rendezvousing at a nearby lake, Margrit demanded that her husband leave the castle immediately, before she, the elder sister, and Heinz were married. Furious, Katharina then plotted to poison Margrit. Only when Katharina dreamed that the village youth would avenge Margrit's violent death according to ancient tradition and that she, Katharina, would be burned on a pyre like witches in the Middle Ages, did she, after awakening from this nightmare, abandon her bloody plan. Her change of will is rewarded: Heinz has decided to marry Katharina and not Margrit.

Director: Hans Schott-Schöbinger
Writer: Hans Schott-Schöbinger

Casts

	Edith Mill as Katharina
	Margrit Aust as Margrit von Kronberg
	Curd Jürgens as Heinz Wagner
	Willy Danek as Felix von Kronberg
	Helmut Ebbs as Konrad von Kronberg
	Hans Graff as Franz
	Erich Schachinger as Peter
	Hansjörg Adolfi as Priest
	Hans Mraschner as Dr. Leistenberg
	Otto Lange as Notary
	Curt Georg Köhler as Judge
	Beppo Seidler as Organist
	Helmuth Knaur as Hangman
	Rudolf Lenz as
	Rudolf Klein-Rogge as

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