The Headsman and the Harlot

Overview

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.

Directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson

Top cast

Niklas Ek

The Executioner

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Stephanie Sunna Hockett

The Whore

Kjell Bergqvist

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Per Oscarsson

Bailiff

Kim Anderzon

Sköka

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Inga-Lill Andersson

Sune Mangs

Kent Andersson

Thorsten Flinck

Details