Overview
A troubled marksman, desperate to secure love and status, turns to forbidden magic in a rural community ruled by superstition and ritual. This stark television adaptation strips Weber’s Romantic opera of spectacle, recasting it as a bleak folk-horror parable about fear, failure, and the cost of choosing certainty over conscience.
Cast
- Michael Ebbecke as Ottokar
- Nany Johnson as Agathe
- Ulrike Sonntag as Ännchen
- Siegmund Nimsgern
- Uwe Heilmann as Max
- Carsten H. Stabell as Eremit
- Thomas Mohr as Kilian
- Albrecht Dennhardt as Samiel
- Loriot as Self - Presenter