The Cleansing - Die Säuberung
(2019)
Regisseur:
Antony SmithSchauspieler:
Rebecca Acock, Rhys Meredith, Simon Nehan, Luke Bailey, Simon PengellyIm 14. Jahrhundert wütet die Pest im ganzen Land. Auch die Mutter der 16-jährigen Alice ist krank und wird vor ihren Augen ermordet. Als Alice dem Dorfoberhaupt nicht gefügig ist, beschuldigt dieser sie der Hexerei. Fast zum Tode gefoltert und kurz vor ihrer Hinrichtung kann Alice fliehen und findet Schutz bei einem mysteriösen Heiler im Wald. Hier sinnt sie auf Rache.
Düsterer Mittelalter-Fantasythriller vom Regisseur von „King Arthur: Excalibur Rising“.
Set in a small isolated village in 14th century Wales, Alice is a sixteen year old girl who is accused of being a witch and causing the plague that has ravaged the village, taking the lives of many, including Alice's own father. When it is revealed that Alice has been hiding her mother's infection, she is forced to watch The Cleanser, an ominous masked figure, brutally dispatch her mother. The town preacher and de-facto leader Tom has eyes for Alice, and subjects her to five torturous trials after she spurns his advances. Escaping the night before her execution, with the help of her mother's friend Mary, she flees into the forest and discovers the secluded hut of a mysterious healer, with his own troubled past and demons to face. He nurses her back to health, and teaches her how to exact revenge upon those that persecuted her.
Set in a small isolated village in 14th century Wales, Alice is a sixteen year old girl who is accused of being a witch and causing the plague that has ravaged the village, taking the lives of many, including Alice's own father. When it is revealed that Alice has been hiding her mother's infection, she is forced to watch The Cleanser, an ominous masked figure, brutally dispatch her mother. The town preacher and de-facto leader Tom has eyes for Alice, and subjects her to five torturous trials after she spurns his advances. Escaping the night before her execution, with the help of her mother's friend Mary, she flees into the forest and discovers the secluded hut of a mysterious healer, with his own troubled past and demons to face. He nurses her back to health, and teaches her how to exact revenge upon those that persecuted her.
