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Dominican Rep. The Devil's Elixirs
- Original title
- Die Elixiere des Teufels
- Year
- 1973
- Running time
- 96 min.
- Country
Germany - East Germany (GDR)- Director
- Screenwriter
- Ralf Kirsten. Novel: E.T.A. Hoffman
- Cast
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- Benjamin Besson
Jaroslava Schallerová- Andrzej Kopiczynski
- Milena Dvorská
Maja Komorowska- Fred Düren
- Krzysztof Chamiec
- Norbert Christian
- Radovan Lukavský
- Jürgen Kluckert
- Edmund Fetting
- Peter Dommisch
Gerhard Bienert- Angela Brunner
- Zdenka Burdová
- Petr Skarke
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Movie Groups
- E.T.A. Hoffmann Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie (Jaroslava Schallerová), whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin (Andrzej Kopiczynski) intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie (Milena Dvorská).
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