Trial Of The Warlock

Trial of the WarlockNow playingWe see Paris on an autumn evening. We sense the period: It must be about 1890. Pavements are wet with mist. Carriages go by. We follow Durtal, a writer in his early 40s. He has dark hair and a pale complexion, mustache and goatee. He enters a house, rings at a first-floor apartment, is received by a servant, offers up hat and cape, is led into a vast, high-ceilinged drawing room where a party is going on.On the walls are religious pictures, plus a portrait of the h...