Synopsis
Maria Francisca, a wealthy young heiress and her friend Mariana De Castro, a young protestant widow, are accused of witchcraft and taken before the Inquisition. Maleficarum is the story of Francisca, a wealthy orphan and Mariana, her widowed protestant friend, who live surrounded by a town in which they are the center of hostile gossip. Francisco Verdugo, the Inquisitor, has his own ambitions. He has his greedy eyes on the orphan heiress’s properties, but he needs a pretext. A confrontation in the street among a group of girls gives him the perfect excuse to arrest Mariana and Francisca and enchain them in the horror chambers of the Inquisition, leading them to a frightful end as they are convicted of witchcraft.
Cast
Amy Hesketh
Mila Joya
Roberto Lopez L.
Alejandro Loayza
Eric Calancha
Erik Antoine
Maria Esther Arteaga
Omar Aldayuz
Claudia Moscoso
Gina Alcon
Vanessa Calvimontes
Barbara Dorado
Massiel Dorado
Ariel Enriquez
Sergio Fernandez
Andrea Galvarro
Carlos Izek Kahan
Rubi Mujica
Fermin Nuñez
Marcelo Quiroga
Manuel Rebollo
Cecilia Rocabado
Erika Saavedra
Roberto Carlos Velasquez
Valdicia Yaroslav
Diana Zapata
Contact Info
- https://vermeerworks.com
- https://www.facebook.com/maleficarumthemovie
- https://twitter.com/jacavila
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2131579/
Additional Info
From IMDB
Brutally realistic historical film, 10 May 2012
Author: Female Soldier from United States
A wealthy orphan (an adult, but whose parents have died and is as yet, unmarried – so, in that period, unprotected) befriends another woman who has lost her husband and is now a homeless widow. Their relationship has lesbian elements – which of course are “beyond the pale” in the era; additionally, the friend is “horror of horrors” – a Lutheran – in other words – a heretic! And the orphan is wealthy… The Inquisition steps in soon enough and when the two women prove ‘uncooperative’- this film pulls no punches. The film shows both how the two women are slowly but surely broken in graphic detail and, showing interviews the inquisitors have with various witnesses, also how the common beliefs of the time justified it. The torture is shown historically accurately being done to the women’s totally nude bodies…
