Film · Drama, Romance, TV Movie

The Headsman and the Harlot (1986)

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.

Director

Hrafn Gunnlaugsson

Writers

Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Ivar Lo-Johansson

Country

Sweden

Language

Swedish

Release date

December 29, 1986

Original title

Bödeln och skökan