Description

Indonesia, 1660: Whenever a desperate child is drawn from the water using a tag crudely tattooed on his neck, hangman Jakob Kuisl is known as upon to research whether witchcraft reaches play. Thus begins The Hangman's Child--the chillingly comprehensive, fast paced traditional thriller from German television screenwriter Oliver Pötzsch, a descendant of the Kuisls, a well-known Bavarian executioner family. Magdalena, the headstrong and intelligent daughter of Bavarian hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her dad away from village walls and is meant to be married off to a different hangman’s son—except the city physician’s boy is hopelessly in love with her. And her father’s sympathy and knowledge are as uncommon as his hated occupation.