The Headsman and the Harlot

The Headsman and the Harlot

1986•1h 24m•5.0/10

DramaRomanceTV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.0/10(4)

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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Production

SVT

Language

SV

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Niklas Ek

Niklas Ek

The Executioner

Stephanie Sunna Hockett

The Whore

Kjell Bergqvist

Kjell Bergqvist

Per

Per Oscarsson

Per Oscarsson

Bailiff

Kim Anderzon

Kim Anderzon

Sköka

Inga-Lill Andersson

Sune Mangs

Sune Mangs

Kent Andersson

Kent Andersson

Thorsten Flinck

Thorsten Flinck

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