Season of the Witch (2011)

Directed by

Dominic Sena

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, action film, thriller film, sword-and-sandal film, medieval film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 2,678 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two knights returning from the Crusades are forced to transport a young woman accused of being a witch to a monastery during the Black Death. They face supernatural threats and their own doubts as they travel across a plague-ravaged land.

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What happens

Season of the Witch is a 2011 American supernatural action-adventure film directed by Dominic Sena, written by Bragi Schut, and starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman. Cage and Perlman star as Teutonic Knights who return from the Crusades to find their homeland devastated by the Black Death. Two church elders accuse a young woman (Claire Foy) of being a witch responsible for the plague. They command the two knights to transport her to a distant monastery so the monks can lift her curse. The film reunited Sena and Cage, who had previously worked together on Gone in 60 Seconds. Development on the film began in 2000 when Schut's spec script was purchased by MGM. The project moved from MGM to Columbia Pictures to Relativity Media, where the film was finally produced by Charles Roven and Alex Gartner. Filming took place primarily in Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. Season of the Witch was released on January 7, 2011, in the United States, Canada, and several other territories. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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