The Devil's Bath

The Devil's Bath (2024)

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In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.

Date of release
2024-03-08
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (188)
Runtime
2h 1m
Genres
Drama, Mystery, History, Horror
Director
Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award

The Devil's Bath is a 2024 historical horror drama film written and directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, and starring Anja Plaschg. The film is based on the book Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation by Kathy Stuart, as well as the criminal trial records for Agnes Catherina Schickin and Eva Lizlfellnerin. An international co-production between Austria and Germany, the film tells the story of Agnes, a young married woman, who does not feel at home in her husband's world.

Production

The film is based on the historical research of Kathy Stuart who reconstructed the practice of "suicide by proxy," a novel crime that was common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in German-speaking Central Europe and Scandinavia. Suicidal people feared eternal damnation that direct suicide entailed, so they found a detour.

The film was produced by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion GmbH (Austria) in co-production with Heimatfilm (Germany). The production was funded by the Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund, Film Location Austria (FISA) and the state of Lower Austria, German Film Fund, Film and Media Foundation NRW and Eurimages; with additional support from Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Arte.

The film was shot for over 40 days from 1 November 2020 to 29 January 2022 in Litschau, Lower Austria and North Rhine-Westphalia. In January 2022 last schedule of filming was done among other places, at the Neuenberg castle ruins near the town of Scheel in the municipality of Lindlar in the Oberbergisches Land. Over 400 extras and small actors were employed for an execution scene in December 2021 to suit the historical setting of the period.

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