在这部女巫剧情片中,Haunting and sensual fantasy/drama about Brulard, a French engineer (Maurice Ronet), who is sent to a remote Swedish town to oversee construction of a road. Marina Vlady stars as Ina, a beautiful, mysterious young Swedish girl who soon captures Brulard's heart. Ina has all her life been forced by the local townsfolk to live in the deep forest because they believe she's a witch. When Brulard and Ina fall in love, he attempts to introduce her into civilization, but with disastrous results. A strange and affecting fable, and similar to Herzog's equally magical The Mystery Of Kaspar Hauser.
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in Sweden for a lumber company meets Ina, a local nature-girl type, falls in love, has an affair, tries to convert her to "civilization", but ends up getting her killed by superstitious villagers instead.
