Witch Hunt: The Mechanics of Mass Hysteria (2018)

• 73%
• 2018
• Documentary
• Drama
• Roland May
• Sascha Tschorn
• Laura Pletzer
• Andreas Schmauder

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the late 18th century, over 50,000 Europeans were persecuted, tortured and executed on charges of witchcraft. The witch hunt was sparked by a Dominican monk named Heinrich Kramer. He was obsessed with the idea that witches were part of a satanic conspiracy. To prevent the impending apocalypse, he wrote a book that would become a guide and legal treatise for the persecution of witches in the Christian world: "Malleus Maleficarum".