A medieval fever dream where sin literally chases you through Dutch mud.
Cinematography
Grotesque beauty in mud, smoke, and torchlit faces.
Direction
Stelling's suffocating long takes force you to witness.
Director
Jos Stelling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stelling shot this debut for practically nothing, using local non-actors and actual plague-era locations.
Based on the 15th-century morality play 'Elckerlijc,' which beat Everyman to the same premise by decades—Dutch cultural pride runs DEEP here.
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