Lokis, the Manuscript of Professor Wittembach

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Bigbossbalrog T @Jigokju Jan 20, 2026 Great folkhorror piece! Really liked this! Came with the severin box set! See more g j @g.username Aug 7, 2025 Rich, visually lavish and faintly unsettling. See more CKB @RT65590503 Nov 6, 2022 Director Janusz Majewski has taken Prosper Mérimée's 1869 horror novel as the basis for a dreamlike film of great visual beauty. A German clergyman goes to Lithuania to research the folk culture, and gets swept into the bizarre, lavish household of young Count Michał Szemiot. His isolated existence is unsettled by the ravings of his mother, driven insane by an attack from a bear before his birth, and the Count himself is solitary, strangely wild and unpredictable. The clergyman's sanctimonious attitude is contrasted with that of the bored, worldly doctor who attempts to 'treat' the deranged mother with the latest 'scientific' methods. Very odd things happen throughout the film, followed by plausible explanations, yet there is a gnawing sense that something is very wrong at the heart of the Count's world. This is horror of the most intelligent kind, which somehow got made despite the paranoid sensibilities of Soviet censors -- they apparently considered Majewski a madman, but allowed him to make such undecipherable films since they won foreign awards. See more Read all reviews

Lokis, the Manuscript of Professor Wittembach

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