TMDb Rating
5.0/10
4 verified votes
The Headsman and the Harlot (1986)
DramaRomanceTV Movie
84 min
Plot Summary
Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both despised and shunned. The executioner became executioner against his will and the whore, only 17 years old, was forced into the brothel. This is the story of how the two meet and exchange cruelty with tenderness, guilt with innocence.
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DramaRomanceTV MovieHrafn GunnlaugssonNiklas EkStephanie Sunna Hockett1986
Director
Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
Top Cast
Niklas EkStephanie Sunna HockettKjell BergqvistPer OscarssonKim Anderzon
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