Overview

Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.

Genres

Cast

Tchéky Karyo

Etienne de Bourbon

Christine Boisson

Elda

Jean Carmet

Vicar

Raoul Billerey

Siméon

Catherine Frot

Cécile

Féodor Atkine

Count of Villars

Maria de Medeiros

Agnès

Gilette Barbier

Sacristan

Nicole Félix

Madeleine

Jean Dasté

Christophe

Mathieu Schiffman

Young Artaud