The Devil's Elixirs

1973 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany - East Germany (GDR)

Drama

Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) 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 (Jaroslava Schallerová), 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 (Andrzej Kopiczynski) 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 (Milena Dvorská).

Direction Brigitte Kirsten · Ralf Kirsten

Cast Benjamin Besson · Jaroslava Schallerová · Andrzej Kopiczynski · Milena Dvorská · Maja Komorowska · Fred Düren · Krzysztof Chamiec · Norbert Christian · Radovan Lukavský · Jürgen Kluckert · Edmund Fetting · Peter Dommisch · Gerhard Bienert · Angela Brunner · Zdenka Burdová · Petr Skarke