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- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
About Der Freischütz
- Drama
- Music
Synopsis
A troubled marksman, desperate to secure love and status, turns to forbidden magic in a rural community ruled by superstition and ritual. This stark television adaptation strips Weber’s Romantic opera of spectacle, recasting it as a bleak folk-horror parable about fear, failure, and the cost of choosing certainty over conscience.
- Director
- Loriot
- Writer
- Johann Friedrich Kind
