The Devil's Trap 1962

The Devil's Trap (1962) is a History and Drama film from Czechoslovakia in the lookmovie catalog, running 1h 25m. Directed by František Vláčil, it features Vítězslav Vejražka and Miroslav Macháček. Viewers rate it 6.9/10 from 34 votes. A small town is one day visited by a priest who is there on a secret mission. He is a member of the Inquisition sent to investigate the activities of a local miller. The miller and his son are the descendants of an old family whose ancestral home burned down a century ago, but was rebuilt from scratch. The miller inherited much of his knowledge about the land, water, and a building's stability from generations of family experience. His reputation for finding water and predicting when a structure might collapse have come to the attention of the Inquisition -surely he must be in league with the Devil.