They were all drawn to the keep. Tonight, they will all face the evil.
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.
- 5.6
- 1983
- Released
- 1h 36m
Scott Glenn
Glaeken Trismegestus
Alberta Watson
Eva Cuza
Jürgen Prochnow
Captain Klaus Woermann
Robert Prosky
Father Mihail Fonescu
Gabriel Byrne
Major Kaempffer
Ian McKellen
Dr. Theodore Cuza
William Morgan Sheppard
Alexandru
Royston Tickner
Tomescu
Michael Carter
Radu Molasar
John Vine
Lutz
Wolf Kahler
S.S. Adjutant
Jona Jones
Otto
Rosalie Crutchley
Josefa
Frederick Warder
Border Guard 1
Bruce Payne
Border Guard 2
David Cardy
Alexandru's SonJohn Eastham
Alexandru's Second SonPhilip Bloomfield
Josefa's Son
Yashaw Adem
Carlos
Ian Ruskin
S.S. Kommando
Stephen Jenn
S.S. Kommando
Benedick Blythe
S.S. Kommando
Robin Langford
S.S. Kommando
Renny Krupinski
Wehrmacht Soldier
Peter Guinness
Wehrmacht Soldier
Sean Baker
Wehrmacht SoldierTimothy Block
Wehrmacht SoldierOwain Griffiths
Wehrmacht Soldier (uncredited)Ralph G. Morse
Wehrmacht Soldier (uncredited)Doug Robinson
Guard (uncredited)Peter Ross-Murray
Nazi Soldier (uncredited)
Released
en
$6,000,000.00
$3,661,757.00
- #nazi
- #ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
- #demon
- #dark fantasy
Reviews
**_Arty fantasy/horror taking place at a citadel in Romania during WW2_** In late 1941, a motorized German infantry unit holds a pass in the Carpathian Mountains by occupying a strange fortress that’s “built backwards,” as the captain observes (Jürgen Prochnow). When soldiers start mysteriously dying, it draws a ruthless Nazi commander into the fray (Gabriel Byrne), as well as a Hebrew profe