The Headsman and the Harlot

Dec 29, 1986

1h 24m

★ 5.0

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

TV Movie

Production Companies

SVT

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Cast

The Executioner

Niklas Ek

The Whore

Stephanie Sunna Hockett

Per

Kjell Bergqvist

Bailiff

Per Oscarsson

Sköka

Kim Anderzon

Inga-Lill Andersson

Sune Mangs

Kent Andersson

Thorsten Flinck

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