Der Freischütz

A troubled marksman, desperate to secure love and status, turns to forbidden magic in a rural community ruled by superstition and ritual. This stark television adaptation strips Weber’s Romantic opera of spectacle, recasting it as a bleak folk-horror parable about fear, failure, and the cost of choosing certainty over conscience.

• Release date
• August 17, 1988
• Runtime
• 143 min
• Genres
• Drama, Music
• Director
• Loriot

Cast

M

Michael Ebbecke Ottokar

N

Nany Johnson Agathe

U

Ulrike Sonntag Ännchen Siegmund Nimsgern

U

Uwe Heilmann Max

C

Carsten H. Stabell Eremit

T

Thomas Mohr Kilian

A

Albrecht Dennhardt Samiel