Movie
Anna Goldin, the Last Witch
6.0/10
1991
1h 45m
de
History
Drama
TV Movie
Horror
Overview
A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a maidservant for Johann Jakob Tschudi, a physician. Tschudi reported her for having put needles in the bread and milk of one of his daughters, apparently through supernatural means. Göldi at first escaped arrest, but the authorities of the Canton of Glarus advertised a reward for her capture in the Zürcher Zeitung on February 9, 1782. Göldi was arrested and under torture, admitted to entering in a pact with the Devil, who had appeared to her as a black dog. She withdrew her confession after the torture ended, but was sentenced on June 18, 1782 to execution by decapitation. The charges were officially of "poisoning" rather than witchcraft, even though the law at the time did not impose the death penalty for non-lethal poisoning.
Director
Gertrud Pinkus
Writers
Gertrud Pinkus, Eveline Hasler
Movie Information
Release Date
August 1, 1991
Runtime
1h 45m
Status
Released
Original Language
de
Vote Count
2
Production
