Overview
Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.
Cast
- Tchéky Karyo as Etienne de Bourbon
- Christine Boisson as Elda
- Jean Carmet as Vicar
- Raoul Billerey as Siméon
- Catherine Frot as Cécile
- Féodor Atkine as Count of Villars
- Maria de Medeiros as Agnès
- Gilette Barbier as Sacristan
- Nicole Félix as Madeleine
- Jean Dasté as Christophe