Movie: The Headsman and the Harlot

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Niklas Ek
Niklas Ek

The Executioner

Stephanie Sunna Hockett
Stephanie Sunna Hockett

The Whore

Kjell Bergqvist
Kjell Bergqvist

Per

Per Oscarsson
Per Oscarsson

Bailiff

Kim Anderzon
Kim Anderzon

Sköka

Inga-Lill Andersson
Inga-Lill Andersson

Sune Mangs
Sune Mangs

Kent Andersson
Kent Andersson

Thorsten Flinck
Thorsten Flinck

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    Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both despised and shunned. The executioner became executioner against his will and the whore, only 17 years old, was forced into the brothel. This is the story of how the two meet and exchange cruelty with tenderness, guilt with innocence.

  • Release Date

    1986-12-29

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    5

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