

Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both despised and shunned. The executioner became executioner against his will and the whore, only 17 years old, was forced into the brothel. This is the story of how the two meet and exchange cruelty with tenderness, guilt with innocence.
The Headsman and the Harlot was directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson.
The Headsman and the Harlot runs for 1h 24min, and was released in 1986.
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