

16/12/1983
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.

Scott Glenn
as Glaeken Trismegestus

Alberta Watson
as Eva Cuza

Jürgen Prochnow
as Captain Klaus Woermann

Robert Prosky
as Father Mihail Fonescu

Gabriel Byrne
as Major Kaempffer

Ian McKellen
as Dr. Theodore Cuza

William Morgan Sheppard
as Alexandru

Royston Tickner
as Tomescu

Michael Carter
as Radu Molasar

John Vine
as Lutz

Wolf Kahler
as S.S. Adjutant

Jona Jones
as Otto

Rosalie Crutchley
as Josefa

Frederick Warder
as Border Guard 1

Bruce Payne
as Border Guard 2

David Cardy
as Alexandru's Son

John Eastham
as Alexandru's Second Son

Philip Bloomfield
as Josefa's Son

Yashaw Adem
as Carlos

Stephen Whittaker
as S.S. Kommando

Ian Ruskin
as S.S. Kommando

Stephen Jenn
as S.S. Kommando

Benedick Blythe
as S.S. Kommando

Robin Langford
as S.S. Kommando

Renny Krupinski
as Wehrmacht Soldier

Peter Guinness
as Wehrmacht Soldier

Sean Baker
as Wehrmacht Soldier

Timothy Block
as Wehrmacht Soldier

Owain Griffiths
as Wehrmacht Soldier (uncredited)

Ralph G. Morse
as Wehrmacht Soldier (uncredited)

Doug Robinson
as Guard (uncredited)

Peter Ross-Murray
as Nazi Soldier (uncredited)
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