Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost (2022) Movie Script
Is anyone there?
Redhead Magda...
give us one for half price.
Grote, dammit!
Stinky fart bag.
I haven't had any for ages!
Mathias, is that you?
Dorothea!
Dorothea! Leave me alone!
Dorothea! Go away!
Dorothea is there!
APOTHECARY MELCHIOR
THE GHOSGood morning, master Apothecary.
- Good morning.
I'm Keterlyn.
- Yes, I know.
You are master Bruys' new nurse.
- Yes.
Didn't you have to go to Pirita
with the servant Mathias?
Yes, but master Bruys didn't feel good
and I stayed with him.
How was the night?
Restless.
I came for the medicine.
What medicine was that?
The Apothecary's magic medicine.
The one that worked so well last time.
Let's see if we can find something.
I'll ask for your hand in marriage today.
- Are you crazy?
People think we have just met.
We need time.
Then I'll come tomorrow.
Not so fast, but soon.
Soon...
Melchior!
That's it!
End of story!
Now you have gone too far!
Is it this one, Apothecary?
Yes, miss, that's the one.
Take this to master Bruys
and tell him
that I'll come to see him myself.
Hello, Sheriff!
- Hello.
I am Keterlyn.
- Hello, miss Keterlyn.
Good day, Sheriff!
- Good day.
Miss Keterlyn!
- Miss Keterlyn.
What was that...
What did I do?
Yes! As of today, you will not sell
your herb liqueur any more!
That's it!
Your medicine makes my tower watchmen
see ghosts and mess around with whores!
Sheriff, wait!
Damn Grote! Woke me up
in the middle of the night, drunk,
and swears in the name of all the saints,
that he saw master Goswin's daughter!
Goswin's daughter?
- Yes!
The one who drowned in a well
a dozen years ago - Dorothea!
People have been saying for years
that Goswin's and Bruys' yard is haunted.
My herb liqueur
has nothing to do with this.
Besides,
I haven't sold anything to Grote.
He can confirm my words...
- We'll see about that. Grote!
He was drunk and fell over the edge
and all because of your herb liqueur!
Hey, you! Come here!
What's your name?
- Toomas.
Which Toomas?
- From Town Hall Square.
Take him to the morgue
at St. Barbara's cemetery
and stay on guard there.
On guard?
But I've been on duty for several days!
- Then you'll do it again!
I can't, Mom's waiting,
she made cabbage soup.
Who cares about your cabbage soup!
And who allowed you up there?
He couldn't just fall from here.
Someone had to help him.
What town is this?
Everyone does what they want!
There is no order!
Get to the morgue now!
How is master Bruys' health?
He's sleeping.
Goswin is here, his neighbor.
Come here!
Your smell drives me crazy.
What is this?
- This is for you.
You know what happened last night?
It seemed to me as if someone was
trying to sneak into the house.
From the main door?
- From the courtyard.
I heard the door open,
I thought it was Mathias.
I came to see-no one there.
Maybe it was a ghost.
The red will protect you.
Father always held up their friendship
as an example.
Bruys, my friend...
I have good news!
Do you recognize it?
- It's Thil...
Thil, yes! Your son's ring!
He pawned it in Riga.
Do you understand what that means?
This means,
your son is on his way home.
Hang in there!
I will never see my Dorothea again...
But you...
I promise,
you will see your son, alive!
This yard is haunted.
Hello, Hainz!
My master is not home,
he went to see his sick neighbor.
Here, I brought you apothecary candy.
Annlin.
This Annlin is your...
- Angel.
Since we're already talking,
this well here...
No.
But this is where Dorothea,
your master's daughter...
No.
People say she drowned herself here?
- No!
This one is new.
There! Behind the Reverend's house.
No need to bring up that old thing-
hello, master Melchior-
or else your eye may fall out, right?
How long does it take you to get water?
It's been over a dozen years already
when our dear Dorothea...
For you, Annlin.
May Saint Joost bless you
with good health!
Go inside, bothering people here
with your blather!
I belong to you...
Reverend Rode!
Mathias!
Reverend Rode!
Is the Apothecary
looking for the sick?
No, I...
I thought I saw...
Is Reverend Rode home?
My brother went to church.
Anything else?
Bless you, young people!
No. Thank you.
Reverend Rode! Where is my money?
First, get it done! Find another woman!
I need a saint, not some naked whore!
I can find someone else,
but she was the best.
We must feel her pain and suffering.
Pain and suffering do not matter!
The key is the orgasmic catharsis
that the person feels!
I don't care!
You don't get money.
All right. I will finish this thing.
But this is for extra money.
And then I'll ditch this town.
Coming to see the prior again?
How are you doing in your new position?
Good.
Someone has complained
to the pope about us.
The construction money is running out,
there is no firewood,
the dormitory is cold,
there are rats in the bam,
the monastery wine is vinegar,
and brother Bartholomeo is a peeper.
What can I do for you?
The pope has banned
the whipping of clergy, right?
A long time ago.
Both, whipping others and self-whipping.
Yet, it is done.
In Tallinn?
I don't think so.
But why do you ask that?
Never mind.
Do you know the story of Goswin
and his daughter?
What story?
His daughter Dorothea drowned herself.
I don't know,
it was before my time here.
But I can investigate if I have time.
"Futility of futilities,"
says the Teacher.
Pardon, mademoiselle!
It's nothing.
Who do I see!
So this is where you escaped to?
Smart girl!
No one knows to look for you
in this town.
I don't know you.
You're Keterlyn Kordt, aren't you?
You cannot escape from yourself.
Keterlyn!
Keterlyn!
Wait! Very good, this way!
- Hold the legs!
Easy now!
It's Redhead Magda.
The whore.
I see.
She began to regret her sinful life.
Jumped into the well
and closed the lid herself?
Honest people can't sleep here.
What's going on here? Annlin?
I don't know anything.
Hainz?
Who owns this old well?
Reverend Rode.
She's not stiff yet.
She was still alive
fifteen minutes ago.
Mathias?
What happened?
The body of a whore
was found in the well.
Now hear this!
Anyone who knows anything
about this murder-
step forward
and bear witness to the Sheriff!
Poor Magda...
I couldn't sleep all night.
I imagined how the dead Dorothea
kept dragging Magda into the well.
She was strangled,
and then thrown into the well.
A robber would have taken it.
She fought for her life.
Look-many broken nails.
No whip marks.
Whip marks?
I have to tell you something.
The Reverend is having
his sister whipped?
For money?
And now they strangle whores?
We don't know what was actually
going on in there.
Actually...
You should have told me at once!
There is no order!
I finished the job, Reverend!
You can see for yourself
if she's a whore or a saint.
So, shake your shillings!
Pardon.
Is it him?
My name is Zwarte, from Rostock.
An artist.
I am the Sheriff of Tallinn.
Come down! Hurry up!
Wait!
Cut through with a knife.
Was the Virgin Mary a redhead?
Rode eliminates his accomplices.
He must be arrested immediately.
I have to go there for a moment.
The Apothecary himself!
I'm Ann.
There is no order...
Greetings!
I'm here for Magda.
She was a hard working beast.
But you're a little late for that one.
But we still have plenty to offer!
Easy to handle and durable.
All girls have teeth in their mouths,
and eyes are shining.
Come on!
Ann. Hilde. Gerda.
I recommend Ann...
Hilde.
- Hilde!
You were close to Magda?
We are not paid to talk.
I'll do the talking then.
An artist began to visit Magda,
Zwarte.
They fell in love,
got secretly engaged,
and confirmed this with silver rings.
They planned to go
to Zwarte's hometown Rostock,
where no one knows about Magda's past.
Yes...
The ship leaves today.
But the Reverend kept holding up
the payment to Zwarte,
always asking to redo something.
Yesterday morning, Magda said that
now she'll get the travel money.
She had seen something at night
that would get her a lot of money.
Some kind of ghost,
but she said no more.
Marie went before her.
What happened to Marie?
She hanged herself.
Why?
She was the executioner's daughter.
They can only marry an executioner
or go to a convent.
She escaped to Tallinn.
To start a new life.
Hilde! Tell your Apothecary
that there's a man here,
who says the Reverend went
to fool with the nuns!
It was Rode and he did no such thing!
He fled with his sister
to the Pirita Convent!
Melchior!
Some man... I'll show her "some" man!
Out of the way! Clear the road!
Please help us, we're stuck here!
Lord Goswin!
I have an official court matter at hand,
but...
Tie my horse in front of the carriage
and find a stick or something!
Hainz, move yourself.
All together now!
Gosh... Like the devil himself
is working against us.
What do you have in there!
Now you can manage.
Melchior, we must go.
Reverend Rode!
In the name of the Tallinn Council...
No! Not like this...
St. Birgitta was merciful
to Laurentz Bruys.
It was a beautiful death.
Sheriff!
In the name of the Tallinn Council
and in accordance with Lbeck law,
I am arresting you, Reverend Rode,
for murders of Magda, the fallen woman,
and Zwarte, the artist from Rostock.
I don't understand, what murder?
Brother! We deserve to be punished!
Yes, but...
- Wait!
We are guilty!
I am guilty...
- This is a misunderstanding!
I had an agreement with Zwarte
that I will pay him.
I am guilty!
- I know nothing about Magda!
He is also guilty.
I need to use your carriage
to transport the criminals to Tallinn!
Yes, of course.
- We're all guilty...
You heard the sheriff!
Prepare the carriage, idiot!
I haven't done anything!
I haven't killed anyone!
Repent, brother!
I don't fear the whip,
I don't fear the executioner's blade!
Let's go!
- Good Christians, repent!
Know your punishment!
I am guilty! I belong to you, my Lord!
I'll do what you ask me to do!
My Lord! I belong to you...
Keterlyn! Wait!
Why didn't you come last night?
What is it?
Melchior, our marriage won't work.
I can't...
Is this because of that artist?
You flinched when you heard his name.
Did you know him?
Look, a nun!
Recently killed.
A man.
Beggar. But shaved...
Don't look now!
If the genitals of a young man are cut
then he'll never grow a beard.
The scars are very old.
The wound is burned with hot iron.
The murderer expected the current
to carry the corpse to the sea.
He was thrown into water
somewhere quite near.
Melchior...
Did you notice that Mathias
was not in the chapel, he came later.
That night, when I sat with sick Bruys,
he went to the chapel.
Mathias!
We found a body from the river.
Do you know him?
Help me take the corpse to town.
Master Bruys can't be left alone!
Keterlyn will stay here.
Call someone from the convent
if you're scared.
It's not about that.
- What then?
I saw you on the street,
you waved at met, and then suddenly...
Tell me what happened.
Be safe.
He has the mark of a witch.
How long did you serve Bruys?
Many years.
Where did you meet?
- In this world.
He was a good master?
You really want to know where I was
at the time of his death.
I obeyed his last command.
I paid the workers to thank them.
My master was a great donor
to the Convent.
Whoever you are, come out!
It's master Apothecary...
I thought you were a bandit.
You gave me such a fright now.
Holy Joost... who is that?
Someone we found in the river.
Oh... and why are you carrying
that poor girl to town now?
The Sheriff will have to find out
what happened.
Are you coming?
Oh, I'm getting a ride,
what do you know...
I'm from a nearby village,
I went for a short visit.
Town Guard! Come and help us.
This will take some time here,
I'll walk to town.
Otherwise the town gates will be locked
and I'll be left outside.
What do you have there?
I've had my punishment
and it's nobody's business.
Then you will explain it
to the Sheriff.
Keep an eye on him
until I get back with the Sheriff.
Apothecary!
Tell the Sheriff that I'm still here.
Maybe it is possible to do
this guarding duty in shifts?
That I'm here one day,
and then somebody else?
You know what...
- Town Guard Toomas.
Why don't you drive to town
and bring the Sheriff here.
My mother will be so happy!
So you won't tell me?
Tell you what?
What you're hiding. The truth.
Truth?
Look then. Maybe you'll see...
What do you see, Apothecary?
What is it?
- There's been another murder.
Another?
Executioners...
unpleasant but necessary people.
The Tower Watchman sees the ghost
of dead Dorothea
and he is killed.
Magda also sees the ghost
and hopes to get money for it
from someone.
She is killed.
Zwarte is engaged to Magda,
and he's killed.
And the last unknown body
is thrown into river
right after Bruys' death.
All the murders are connected,
but not with Reverend Rode.
How do you know all this?
Executioner!
Who gets burned with this mark?
That's the mark of a witch.
The sign of an oracle.
Like a viper
on the apothecary's sign.
I overheard Rode arguing with Zwarte.
They were talking about
the painting in the church, not whipping.
I didn't have the money to pay him...
All the church's money
had gone to booze.
I'll pay for it myself, don't worry.
You will pay him?
- Sure, I'll pay.
If you tell me who whipped your sister.
- She herself!
I... belong... to you...
I'll do what you tell me to do...
Melchior!
Melchior!
Where's the body?
And the killer?
Where are they?
Melchior?
Melchior!
What happened here?
I can't remember.
Melchior?
What do you see, Apothecary?
Melchior!
- I know where Mathias went!
Tonight, at the Commander!
Again?
Has anyone asked the monastery
for asylum this moming?
Yes.
- Was it Bruys' servant Mathias?
Yes.
- I need to speak to him.
He wants to be a lay brother.
- I need to speak to him!
He is under the protection
of the monastery.
Melchior, he's not running away
from the law.
The fear of death brought him here.
Who is he afraid of?
- He didn't say.
He knew you were coming.
He asked to tell you a number.
Six.
And one more thing.
You once asked me about the story
of Goswin and his daughter.
Brother Lodevic will tell you.
Brother Lodevic!
No, he doesn't need it.
There is only one medicine that still
works for him -he likes to win!
Why did Dorothea drown herself?
I guess I did well.
Yes, you did very well.
Your turn.
Bruys had a son. Thil.
Goswin had a daughter. Dorothea.
Dorothea was a beautiful maiden,
but a little dumb.
Thil was arrogant and a little proud.
And then what happened?
As always in life...
And then what happened?
As always in life...
My turn.
Poor Dorothea drowned herself
in the well.
Was Thil punished?
No. Thil denied everything.
But since Goswin demanded justice,
then Bruys secretly sent his son
to a foreign land.
And...
And...
No one has heard from him since.
Now I want to go and take a nap.
I came to see the Commander.
- Go!
The Order is looking to you now.
You -honorable Town Councilors,
merchants...
apothecaries...
I'm talking about the fact that
Pirita Convent belongs to the Order,
but it will also serve the citizens.
So, by supporting
the construction of the convent,
you are supporting the town.
Who was Laurentz Bruys?
Who was he?
- A merchant?
An ordinary Tallinn merchant.
But Laurentz Bruys
as a god-fearing great donor,
as the patron of the Pirita Convent,
is the man whose name and family
will last forever.
No!
He was not an ordinary
merchant of Tallinn.
I am an old man.
My wife died in childbirth...
and when my only daughter
Dorothea died...
all I had left was my friend,
Laurentz Bruys.
I will donate all my earthly belongings
to the construction of the convent.
Excellent!
So it could be inaugurated
already in my lifetime!
Very good! Excellent!
Then I will put on a monk's robe myself
and join the sisters and brothers there.
Glory to Arend Goswin!
But where is our Sheriff?
Sheriff!
- I'm here!
I've heard there have been
some incidents in town again.
What does the honorable Commander mean?
Somebody falling down the well
or from a tower or onto the church floor
is not an everyday occurence
here in the castle.
There have indeed been
some unfortunate accidents in Tallinn.
But the town court...
- Works slowly.
Yes, but also fairly!
And your assistant, this Apothecary,
the bloodhound, is he still...
He's still a bloodhound.
All these crimes are...
Well, there...
Are there five of them?
Or... are there six?
Melchior!
Look-I have five of them,
one, two, three, four...
For heaven's sake, please forgive him!
He doesn't know what he's doing,
I'm very sorry...
I want to testify in court.
- Melchior!
I'm truly very sorry...
- Drunkard! Shame!
Melchior!
Melchior!
- Be quiet.
Were you afraid of the dark
when you were little?
I wasn't.
- Be quiet!
Now!
Twist the knife off his hand!
Let's see, who you are!
Hainz!
Can't you do anything on your own?
Finish him off!
What are you waiting for!
In the name of Tallinn Council
and in accordance with Lbeck law,
you, Annlin Buntkfer,
and you, Hainz Buntkfer,
are under arrest.
How did you know
they would come tonight?
The feet of the unknown body
were cut off,
Bruys had six toes and this defect
is inherited from father to son.
I can't understand a thing.
The ghost that the Tower Guard saw
and the unknown body in the river
is one and the same person-
Thil, the lost son of Bruys.
Dear Lord...
All I had to do was let
the criminals know that I knew this
Three men to the yard!
Goswin! Here is Wentzel Dorn,
the Sheriff of Tallinn!
Does the wound hurt?
- No, it's just a flesh wound.
Goswin!
What are you waiting for?
Break down the door!
Sheriff!
Everyone to the yard!
They're there!
He's here!
I couldn't sleep,
went to get some fresh air,
and I saw them, when they left the house,
knives in their hands.
They attacked me.
St. Birgitta herself protected me!
Did you know that Bruys' son
was kept in prison for years?
He was tortured, mutilated
and finally killed.
It was done by your servants,
Hainz and Annlin!
I warmed those snakes on my chest...
They will be punished!
I promise!
How did they manage to hide Thil here
so that you didn't notice anything?
Here?
- Melchior!
He was not trying to insinuate...
What do you keep in your cellar?
- Salt!
Or I used to.
I stopped trading in salt years ago.
Oh, almighty merciful God!
Could it really be true?
There was probably an iron ring
attachedhere.
The boy was chained up like a dog.
Here was his bed,
the floor is lighter here.
And look, a darker area.
- Why is it darker?
This is where he defecated.
Poor Goswin,
betrayed by his own servants...
I don't like torture one bit
but what can you do?
Hainz won't tell you anything.
You'll torture him to death like this.
That wouldn't be much of a loss
for this town.
Annlin...
You can't get out of here
without a confession.
And you know it.
Did you kidnap Laurentz Bruys' son
before he reached a foreign land?
Yes, me...
and Hainz.
Did you kill Tower Watchman Grote,
Magda and Zwarte?
The drunk and the whore found out...
that we were holding someone
in the basement.
The whore, stupid woman,
came to demand money for her silence.
And Zwarte?
The whore threatened
that Zwarte would come to look for her.
So we killed him, too, just in case.
Well, nod along.
Then we can close this matter.
See, it wasn't so hard to tell the truth!
Hainz Buntkfer and Annlin Buntkfer,
tomorrow you will stand
before the Town Council
for the murder of four people!
Did you do it on the orders
of your master Goswin?
That wimp!
Bruys' son dishonors his daughter
so that she jumps into the well,
and what does he do?
- What?
Nothing at all!
It wasn't up to you
to get revenge for his daughter.
Dorothea was also my daughter!
Her mother died at birth, I raised her!
With these same breasts I nursed
my dear Dorothea...
Listen, Melchior,
no servant is so loyal to their master
that they'll let themselves
to be executed to save the master.
Unless they have a special reason.
We don't have much time, Melchior.
Goswin has decided to completely
destroy Bruys, even the memory of him!
He will not be buried in his chapel,
as was his firm wish...
Right you are, Mathias!
The chapel would have been
a worthy resting place for Bruys,
not a nameless grave.
But he changed his mind
at the last moment
and I couldn't change his mind any more.
You, Mathias,
were his faithful servant...
I had Keterlyn brought back to town.
The holy sisters had already
set their sights on her.
I'll take her to my house.
I cannot commend you enough
for solving this story.
I knew your late father.
He was a worthy man...
See you in court in a few hours.
Be good!
The girl's mother was buried today.
I have enough for her, too.
Hello, Rode!
Hello.
I'd like to see the registration book
of your congregation.
I have no congregation here any more.
I left my sister in the care of the nuns
and I'll go to Tartu.
Or somewhere even further away.
I have to see the entries
for Annlin and Hainz Buntkfer.
Buntkfer? One Peter Buntkfer
is a well know man in Tartu.
Wealthy?
For a young master,
he has a very high and fancy stone house
and many horses.
Very beautiful breeds, but...
- But?
But no one knows where this money
and wealth really comes from.
Let'sgo!
Honorable Court, good masters!
With God's help I have freed our town
of a horrible scourge-the ghost.
I have brought before you
these two criminals.
My Deputy
will explain it to you in more detail!
I would like to tell you about
one ordinary courtyard in Tallinn.
Some may think that it's haunted,
but in fact, love was hiding there.
And this love tumed into hatred.
This is a story of the birth of evil.
Merchant Bruys' son Thil
was kidnapped twelve years ago.
He was kept alive only to be shown
- blind and crippled-
to his father in his dying hour.
It was supposed to be
the big revenge for Dorothea.
They chose a night when Bruys
was supposed to be home alone.
But his new nurse Keterlyn
messed up their plans,
and Thil managed to run off for a second.
He was mistaken
for the ghost of Dorothea.
Seeing him sealed the fates
of Tower Watchman Grote,
Magda and Zwarte, the artist.
On the day Bruys died,
they tried again.
Thil was taken to Pirita,
but merciful God called Bruys to Him
before they could go on with it.
The sweet revenge,
prepared for years, had failed.
Then why did I cripple and torture Thil,
this criminal thinks.
When the Sheriff demanded
Goswin's carriage,
Annlin quickly stabbed Thil
and threw him into the river.
There are two murderers in front of you.
But Annlin and Hainz
were just well-paid accomplices.
There is also a third one...
The real culprit.
Please bring in front of the court
Annlin's and Hainz's son -
Peter Buntkfer from Tartu!
Do not touch my son!
Peter is innocent!
That madman is guilty!
He hated Bruys with all his heart!
He came up with the plan!
He wanted to get revenge
for his daughter,
he went mad when that dim-witted
Dorothea jumped into the well!
Guards!
Do not touch my son!
Goswin is guilty!
Calm down!
The criminal has been arrested!
Damn you all!
I curse you all forever! Burn in hell!
The court is over.
Which Peter did you ask
to be brought in?
I wanted to bring him in as a witness...
but I forgot to send word to him
in Tartu.
Annlin mentioned
that she had nursed Dorothea.
Then I realized that she must have had
a baby of her own too.
And then it was clear whyAnnlin
and Hainz were so loyal.
Goswin paid them,
and their son Peter could live in wealth
at the expense of Thil's torments.
I'm not coming to Court with you again.
This solving mysteries of yours
is for me like...
Futility of futilities.
Why are you smiling?
I remembered the first words
you said to me when we met.
"Hey, what's your name?
My name is Gerke!"
I remembered something too:
"Is it Gerke like Gretchen
or Gerke like Gertrude?"
What's the real reason you came here?
A girl who knows about wounds
and the marks of a witch
and who cannot marry an apothecary?
You don't know?
I do.
Shall I say it?
I'm the executioner's daughter.
Your father was an executioner,
my father was an apothecary,
and it doesn't mean a thing.
It doesn't matter what people say.
What matters is who you are.
And therefore, you will marry me.
Keterlyn Wakenstede.
Redhead Magda...
give us one for half price.
Grote, dammit!
Stinky fart bag.
I haven't had any for ages!
Mathias, is that you?
Dorothea!
Dorothea! Leave me alone!
Dorothea! Go away!
Dorothea is there!
APOTHECARY MELCHIOR
THE GHOSGood morning, master Apothecary.
- Good morning.
I'm Keterlyn.
- Yes, I know.
You are master Bruys' new nurse.
- Yes.
Didn't you have to go to Pirita
with the servant Mathias?
Yes, but master Bruys didn't feel good
and I stayed with him.
How was the night?
Restless.
I came for the medicine.
What medicine was that?
The Apothecary's magic medicine.
The one that worked so well last time.
Let's see if we can find something.
I'll ask for your hand in marriage today.
- Are you crazy?
People think we have just met.
We need time.
Then I'll come tomorrow.
Not so fast, but soon.
Soon...
Melchior!
That's it!
End of story!
Now you have gone too far!
Is it this one, Apothecary?
Yes, miss, that's the one.
Take this to master Bruys
and tell him
that I'll come to see him myself.
Hello, Sheriff!
- Hello.
I am Keterlyn.
- Hello, miss Keterlyn.
Good day, Sheriff!
- Good day.
Miss Keterlyn!
- Miss Keterlyn.
What was that...
What did I do?
Yes! As of today, you will not sell
your herb liqueur any more!
That's it!
Your medicine makes my tower watchmen
see ghosts and mess around with whores!
Sheriff, wait!
Damn Grote! Woke me up
in the middle of the night, drunk,
and swears in the name of all the saints,
that he saw master Goswin's daughter!
Goswin's daughter?
- Yes!
The one who drowned in a well
a dozen years ago - Dorothea!
People have been saying for years
that Goswin's and Bruys' yard is haunted.
My herb liqueur
has nothing to do with this.
Besides,
I haven't sold anything to Grote.
He can confirm my words...
- We'll see about that. Grote!
He was drunk and fell over the edge
and all because of your herb liqueur!
Hey, you! Come here!
What's your name?
- Toomas.
Which Toomas?
- From Town Hall Square.
Take him to the morgue
at St. Barbara's cemetery
and stay on guard there.
On guard?
But I've been on duty for several days!
- Then you'll do it again!
I can't, Mom's waiting,
she made cabbage soup.
Who cares about your cabbage soup!
And who allowed you up there?
He couldn't just fall from here.
Someone had to help him.
What town is this?
Everyone does what they want!
There is no order!
Get to the morgue now!
How is master Bruys' health?
He's sleeping.
Goswin is here, his neighbor.
Come here!
Your smell drives me crazy.
What is this?
- This is for you.
You know what happened last night?
It seemed to me as if someone was
trying to sneak into the house.
From the main door?
- From the courtyard.
I heard the door open,
I thought it was Mathias.
I came to see-no one there.
Maybe it was a ghost.
The red will protect you.
Father always held up their friendship
as an example.
Bruys, my friend...
I have good news!
Do you recognize it?
- It's Thil...
Thil, yes! Your son's ring!
He pawned it in Riga.
Do you understand what that means?
This means,
your son is on his way home.
Hang in there!
I will never see my Dorothea again...
But you...
I promise,
you will see your son, alive!
This yard is haunted.
Hello, Hainz!
My master is not home,
he went to see his sick neighbor.
Here, I brought you apothecary candy.
Annlin.
This Annlin is your...
- Angel.
Since we're already talking,
this well here...
No.
But this is where Dorothea,
your master's daughter...
No.
People say she drowned herself here?
- No!
This one is new.
There! Behind the Reverend's house.
No need to bring up that old thing-
hello, master Melchior-
or else your eye may fall out, right?
How long does it take you to get water?
It's been over a dozen years already
when our dear Dorothea...
For you, Annlin.
May Saint Joost bless you
with good health!
Go inside, bothering people here
with your blather!
I belong to you...
Reverend Rode!
Mathias!
Reverend Rode!
Is the Apothecary
looking for the sick?
No, I...
I thought I saw...
Is Reverend Rode home?
My brother went to church.
Anything else?
Bless you, young people!
No. Thank you.
Reverend Rode! Where is my money?
First, get it done! Find another woman!
I need a saint, not some naked whore!
I can find someone else,
but she was the best.
We must feel her pain and suffering.
Pain and suffering do not matter!
The key is the orgasmic catharsis
that the person feels!
I don't care!
You don't get money.
All right. I will finish this thing.
But this is for extra money.
And then I'll ditch this town.
Coming to see the prior again?
How are you doing in your new position?
Good.
Someone has complained
to the pope about us.
The construction money is running out,
there is no firewood,
the dormitory is cold,
there are rats in the bam,
the monastery wine is vinegar,
and brother Bartholomeo is a peeper.
What can I do for you?
The pope has banned
the whipping of clergy, right?
A long time ago.
Both, whipping others and self-whipping.
Yet, it is done.
In Tallinn?
I don't think so.
But why do you ask that?
Never mind.
Do you know the story of Goswin
and his daughter?
What story?
His daughter Dorothea drowned herself.
I don't know,
it was before my time here.
But I can investigate if I have time.
"Futility of futilities,"
says the Teacher.
Pardon, mademoiselle!
It's nothing.
Who do I see!
So this is where you escaped to?
Smart girl!
No one knows to look for you
in this town.
I don't know you.
You're Keterlyn Kordt, aren't you?
You cannot escape from yourself.
Keterlyn!
Keterlyn!
Wait! Very good, this way!
- Hold the legs!
Easy now!
It's Redhead Magda.
The whore.
I see.
She began to regret her sinful life.
Jumped into the well
and closed the lid herself?
Honest people can't sleep here.
What's going on here? Annlin?
I don't know anything.
Hainz?
Who owns this old well?
Reverend Rode.
She's not stiff yet.
She was still alive
fifteen minutes ago.
Mathias?
What happened?
The body of a whore
was found in the well.
Now hear this!
Anyone who knows anything
about this murder-
step forward
and bear witness to the Sheriff!
Poor Magda...
I couldn't sleep all night.
I imagined how the dead Dorothea
kept dragging Magda into the well.
She was strangled,
and then thrown into the well.
A robber would have taken it.
She fought for her life.
Look-many broken nails.
No whip marks.
Whip marks?
I have to tell you something.
The Reverend is having
his sister whipped?
For money?
And now they strangle whores?
We don't know what was actually
going on in there.
Actually...
You should have told me at once!
There is no order!
I finished the job, Reverend!
You can see for yourself
if she's a whore or a saint.
So, shake your shillings!
Pardon.
Is it him?
My name is Zwarte, from Rostock.
An artist.
I am the Sheriff of Tallinn.
Come down! Hurry up!
Wait!
Cut through with a knife.
Was the Virgin Mary a redhead?
Rode eliminates his accomplices.
He must be arrested immediately.
I have to go there for a moment.
The Apothecary himself!
I'm Ann.
There is no order...
Greetings!
I'm here for Magda.
She was a hard working beast.
But you're a little late for that one.
But we still have plenty to offer!
Easy to handle and durable.
All girls have teeth in their mouths,
and eyes are shining.
Come on!
Ann. Hilde. Gerda.
I recommend Ann...
Hilde.
- Hilde!
You were close to Magda?
We are not paid to talk.
I'll do the talking then.
An artist began to visit Magda,
Zwarte.
They fell in love,
got secretly engaged,
and confirmed this with silver rings.
They planned to go
to Zwarte's hometown Rostock,
where no one knows about Magda's past.
Yes...
The ship leaves today.
But the Reverend kept holding up
the payment to Zwarte,
always asking to redo something.
Yesterday morning, Magda said that
now she'll get the travel money.
She had seen something at night
that would get her a lot of money.
Some kind of ghost,
but she said no more.
Marie went before her.
What happened to Marie?
She hanged herself.
Why?
She was the executioner's daughter.
They can only marry an executioner
or go to a convent.
She escaped to Tallinn.
To start a new life.
Hilde! Tell your Apothecary
that there's a man here,
who says the Reverend went
to fool with the nuns!
It was Rode and he did no such thing!
He fled with his sister
to the Pirita Convent!
Melchior!
Some man... I'll show her "some" man!
Out of the way! Clear the road!
Please help us, we're stuck here!
Lord Goswin!
I have an official court matter at hand,
but...
Tie my horse in front of the carriage
and find a stick or something!
Hainz, move yourself.
All together now!
Gosh... Like the devil himself
is working against us.
What do you have in there!
Now you can manage.
Melchior, we must go.
Reverend Rode!
In the name of the Tallinn Council...
No! Not like this...
St. Birgitta was merciful
to Laurentz Bruys.
It was a beautiful death.
Sheriff!
In the name of the Tallinn Council
and in accordance with Lbeck law,
I am arresting you, Reverend Rode,
for murders of Magda, the fallen woman,
and Zwarte, the artist from Rostock.
I don't understand, what murder?
Brother! We deserve to be punished!
Yes, but...
- Wait!
We are guilty!
I am guilty...
- This is a misunderstanding!
I had an agreement with Zwarte
that I will pay him.
I am guilty!
- I know nothing about Magda!
He is also guilty.
I need to use your carriage
to transport the criminals to Tallinn!
Yes, of course.
- We're all guilty...
You heard the sheriff!
Prepare the carriage, idiot!
I haven't done anything!
I haven't killed anyone!
Repent, brother!
I don't fear the whip,
I don't fear the executioner's blade!
Let's go!
- Good Christians, repent!
Know your punishment!
I am guilty! I belong to you, my Lord!
I'll do what you ask me to do!
My Lord! I belong to you...
Keterlyn! Wait!
Why didn't you come last night?
What is it?
Melchior, our marriage won't work.
I can't...
Is this because of that artist?
You flinched when you heard his name.
Did you know him?
Look, a nun!
Recently killed.
A man.
Beggar. But shaved...
Don't look now!
If the genitals of a young man are cut
then he'll never grow a beard.
The scars are very old.
The wound is burned with hot iron.
The murderer expected the current
to carry the corpse to the sea.
He was thrown into water
somewhere quite near.
Melchior...
Did you notice that Mathias
was not in the chapel, he came later.
That night, when I sat with sick Bruys,
he went to the chapel.
Mathias!
We found a body from the river.
Do you know him?
Help me take the corpse to town.
Master Bruys can't be left alone!
Keterlyn will stay here.
Call someone from the convent
if you're scared.
It's not about that.
- What then?
I saw you on the street,
you waved at met, and then suddenly...
Tell me what happened.
Be safe.
He has the mark of a witch.
How long did you serve Bruys?
Many years.
Where did you meet?
- In this world.
He was a good master?
You really want to know where I was
at the time of his death.
I obeyed his last command.
I paid the workers to thank them.
My master was a great donor
to the Convent.
Whoever you are, come out!
It's master Apothecary...
I thought you were a bandit.
You gave me such a fright now.
Holy Joost... who is that?
Someone we found in the river.
Oh... and why are you carrying
that poor girl to town now?
The Sheriff will have to find out
what happened.
Are you coming?
Oh, I'm getting a ride,
what do you know...
I'm from a nearby village,
I went for a short visit.
Town Guard! Come and help us.
This will take some time here,
I'll walk to town.
Otherwise the town gates will be locked
and I'll be left outside.
What do you have there?
I've had my punishment
and it's nobody's business.
Then you will explain it
to the Sheriff.
Keep an eye on him
until I get back with the Sheriff.
Apothecary!
Tell the Sheriff that I'm still here.
Maybe it is possible to do
this guarding duty in shifts?
That I'm here one day,
and then somebody else?
You know what...
- Town Guard Toomas.
Why don't you drive to town
and bring the Sheriff here.
My mother will be so happy!
So you won't tell me?
Tell you what?
What you're hiding. The truth.
Truth?
Look then. Maybe you'll see...
What do you see, Apothecary?
What is it?
- There's been another murder.
Another?
Executioners...
unpleasant but necessary people.
The Tower Watchman sees the ghost
of dead Dorothea
and he is killed.
Magda also sees the ghost
and hopes to get money for it
from someone.
She is killed.
Zwarte is engaged to Magda,
and he's killed.
And the last unknown body
is thrown into river
right after Bruys' death.
All the murders are connected,
but not with Reverend Rode.
How do you know all this?
Executioner!
Who gets burned with this mark?
That's the mark of a witch.
The sign of an oracle.
Like a viper
on the apothecary's sign.
I overheard Rode arguing with Zwarte.
They were talking about
the painting in the church, not whipping.
I didn't have the money to pay him...
All the church's money
had gone to booze.
I'll pay for it myself, don't worry.
You will pay him?
- Sure, I'll pay.
If you tell me who whipped your sister.
- She herself!
I... belong... to you...
I'll do what you tell me to do...
Melchior!
Melchior!
Where's the body?
And the killer?
Where are they?
Melchior?
Melchior!
What happened here?
I can't remember.
Melchior?
What do you see, Apothecary?
Melchior!
- I know where Mathias went!
Tonight, at the Commander!
Again?
Has anyone asked the monastery
for asylum this moming?
Yes.
- Was it Bruys' servant Mathias?
Yes.
- I need to speak to him.
He wants to be a lay brother.
- I need to speak to him!
He is under the protection
of the monastery.
Melchior, he's not running away
from the law.
The fear of death brought him here.
Who is he afraid of?
- He didn't say.
He knew you were coming.
He asked to tell you a number.
Six.
And one more thing.
You once asked me about the story
of Goswin and his daughter.
Brother Lodevic will tell you.
Brother Lodevic!
No, he doesn't need it.
There is only one medicine that still
works for him -he likes to win!
Why did Dorothea drown herself?
I guess I did well.
Yes, you did very well.
Your turn.
Bruys had a son. Thil.
Goswin had a daughter. Dorothea.
Dorothea was a beautiful maiden,
but a little dumb.
Thil was arrogant and a little proud.
And then what happened?
As always in life...
And then what happened?
As always in life...
My turn.
Poor Dorothea drowned herself
in the well.
Was Thil punished?
No. Thil denied everything.
But since Goswin demanded justice,
then Bruys secretly sent his son
to a foreign land.
And...
And...
No one has heard from him since.
Now I want to go and take a nap.
I came to see the Commander.
- Go!
The Order is looking to you now.
You -honorable Town Councilors,
merchants...
apothecaries...
I'm talking about the fact that
Pirita Convent belongs to the Order,
but it will also serve the citizens.
So, by supporting
the construction of the convent,
you are supporting the town.
Who was Laurentz Bruys?
Who was he?
- A merchant?
An ordinary Tallinn merchant.
But Laurentz Bruys
as a god-fearing great donor,
as the patron of the Pirita Convent,
is the man whose name and family
will last forever.
No!
He was not an ordinary
merchant of Tallinn.
I am an old man.
My wife died in childbirth...
and when my only daughter
Dorothea died...
all I had left was my friend,
Laurentz Bruys.
I will donate all my earthly belongings
to the construction of the convent.
Excellent!
So it could be inaugurated
already in my lifetime!
Very good! Excellent!
Then I will put on a monk's robe myself
and join the sisters and brothers there.
Glory to Arend Goswin!
But where is our Sheriff?
Sheriff!
- I'm here!
I've heard there have been
some incidents in town again.
What does the honorable Commander mean?
Somebody falling down the well
or from a tower or onto the church floor
is not an everyday occurence
here in the castle.
There have indeed been
some unfortunate accidents in Tallinn.
But the town court...
- Works slowly.
Yes, but also fairly!
And your assistant, this Apothecary,
the bloodhound, is he still...
He's still a bloodhound.
All these crimes are...
Well, there...
Are there five of them?
Or... are there six?
Melchior!
Look-I have five of them,
one, two, three, four...
For heaven's sake, please forgive him!
He doesn't know what he's doing,
I'm very sorry...
I want to testify in court.
- Melchior!
I'm truly very sorry...
- Drunkard! Shame!
Melchior!
Melchior!
- Be quiet.
Were you afraid of the dark
when you were little?
I wasn't.
- Be quiet!
Now!
Twist the knife off his hand!
Let's see, who you are!
Hainz!
Can't you do anything on your own?
Finish him off!
What are you waiting for!
In the name of Tallinn Council
and in accordance with Lbeck law,
you, Annlin Buntkfer,
and you, Hainz Buntkfer,
are under arrest.
How did you know
they would come tonight?
The feet of the unknown body
were cut off,
Bruys had six toes and this defect
is inherited from father to son.
I can't understand a thing.
The ghost that the Tower Guard saw
and the unknown body in the river
is one and the same person-
Thil, the lost son of Bruys.
Dear Lord...
All I had to do was let
the criminals know that I knew this
Three men to the yard!
Goswin! Here is Wentzel Dorn,
the Sheriff of Tallinn!
Does the wound hurt?
- No, it's just a flesh wound.
Goswin!
What are you waiting for?
Break down the door!
Sheriff!
Everyone to the yard!
They're there!
He's here!
I couldn't sleep,
went to get some fresh air,
and I saw them, when they left the house,
knives in their hands.
They attacked me.
St. Birgitta herself protected me!
Did you know that Bruys' son
was kept in prison for years?
He was tortured, mutilated
and finally killed.
It was done by your servants,
Hainz and Annlin!
I warmed those snakes on my chest...
They will be punished!
I promise!
How did they manage to hide Thil here
so that you didn't notice anything?
Here?
- Melchior!
He was not trying to insinuate...
What do you keep in your cellar?
- Salt!
Or I used to.
I stopped trading in salt years ago.
Oh, almighty merciful God!
Could it really be true?
There was probably an iron ring
attachedhere.
The boy was chained up like a dog.
Here was his bed,
the floor is lighter here.
And look, a darker area.
- Why is it darker?
This is where he defecated.
Poor Goswin,
betrayed by his own servants...
I don't like torture one bit
but what can you do?
Hainz won't tell you anything.
You'll torture him to death like this.
That wouldn't be much of a loss
for this town.
Annlin...
You can't get out of here
without a confession.
And you know it.
Did you kidnap Laurentz Bruys' son
before he reached a foreign land?
Yes, me...
and Hainz.
Did you kill Tower Watchman Grote,
Magda and Zwarte?
The drunk and the whore found out...
that we were holding someone
in the basement.
The whore, stupid woman,
came to demand money for her silence.
And Zwarte?
The whore threatened
that Zwarte would come to look for her.
So we killed him, too, just in case.
Well, nod along.
Then we can close this matter.
See, it wasn't so hard to tell the truth!
Hainz Buntkfer and Annlin Buntkfer,
tomorrow you will stand
before the Town Council
for the murder of four people!
Did you do it on the orders
of your master Goswin?
That wimp!
Bruys' son dishonors his daughter
so that she jumps into the well,
and what does he do?
- What?
Nothing at all!
It wasn't up to you
to get revenge for his daughter.
Dorothea was also my daughter!
Her mother died at birth, I raised her!
With these same breasts I nursed
my dear Dorothea...
Listen, Melchior,
no servant is so loyal to their master
that they'll let themselves
to be executed to save the master.
Unless they have a special reason.
We don't have much time, Melchior.
Goswin has decided to completely
destroy Bruys, even the memory of him!
He will not be buried in his chapel,
as was his firm wish...
Right you are, Mathias!
The chapel would have been
a worthy resting place for Bruys,
not a nameless grave.
But he changed his mind
at the last moment
and I couldn't change his mind any more.
You, Mathias,
were his faithful servant...
I had Keterlyn brought back to town.
The holy sisters had already
set their sights on her.
I'll take her to my house.
I cannot commend you enough
for solving this story.
I knew your late father.
He was a worthy man...
See you in court in a few hours.
Be good!
The girl's mother was buried today.
I have enough for her, too.
Hello, Rode!
Hello.
I'd like to see the registration book
of your congregation.
I have no congregation here any more.
I left my sister in the care of the nuns
and I'll go to Tartu.
Or somewhere even further away.
I have to see the entries
for Annlin and Hainz Buntkfer.
Buntkfer? One Peter Buntkfer
is a well know man in Tartu.
Wealthy?
For a young master,
he has a very high and fancy stone house
and many horses.
Very beautiful breeds, but...
- But?
But no one knows where this money
and wealth really comes from.
Let'sgo!
Honorable Court, good masters!
With God's help I have freed our town
of a horrible scourge-the ghost.
I have brought before you
these two criminals.
My Deputy
will explain it to you in more detail!
I would like to tell you about
one ordinary courtyard in Tallinn.
Some may think that it's haunted,
but in fact, love was hiding there.
And this love tumed into hatred.
This is a story of the birth of evil.
Merchant Bruys' son Thil
was kidnapped twelve years ago.
He was kept alive only to be shown
- blind and crippled-
to his father in his dying hour.
It was supposed to be
the big revenge for Dorothea.
They chose a night when Bruys
was supposed to be home alone.
But his new nurse Keterlyn
messed up their plans,
and Thil managed to run off for a second.
He was mistaken
for the ghost of Dorothea.
Seeing him sealed the fates
of Tower Watchman Grote,
Magda and Zwarte, the artist.
On the day Bruys died,
they tried again.
Thil was taken to Pirita,
but merciful God called Bruys to Him
before they could go on with it.
The sweet revenge,
prepared for years, had failed.
Then why did I cripple and torture Thil,
this criminal thinks.
When the Sheriff demanded
Goswin's carriage,
Annlin quickly stabbed Thil
and threw him into the river.
There are two murderers in front of you.
But Annlin and Hainz
were just well-paid accomplices.
There is also a third one...
The real culprit.
Please bring in front of the court
Annlin's and Hainz's son -
Peter Buntkfer from Tartu!
Do not touch my son!
Peter is innocent!
That madman is guilty!
He hated Bruys with all his heart!
He came up with the plan!
He wanted to get revenge
for his daughter,
he went mad when that dim-witted
Dorothea jumped into the well!
Guards!
Do not touch my son!
Goswin is guilty!
Calm down!
The criminal has been arrested!
Damn you all!
I curse you all forever! Burn in hell!
The court is over.
Which Peter did you ask
to be brought in?
I wanted to bring him in as a witness...
but I forgot to send word to him
in Tartu.
Annlin mentioned
that she had nursed Dorothea.
Then I realized that she must have had
a baby of her own too.
And then it was clear whyAnnlin
and Hainz were so loyal.
Goswin paid them,
and their son Peter could live in wealth
at the expense of Thil's torments.
I'm not coming to Court with you again.
This solving mysteries of yours
is for me like...
Futility of futilities.
Why are you smiling?
I remembered the first words
you said to me when we met.
"Hey, what's your name?
My name is Gerke!"
I remembered something too:
"Is it Gerke like Gretchen
or Gerke like Gertrude?"
What's the real reason you came here?
A girl who knows about wounds
and the marks of a witch
and who cannot marry an apothecary?
You don't know?
I do.
Shall I say it?
I'm the executioner's daughter.
Your father was an executioner,
my father was an apothecary,
and it doesn't mean a thing.
It doesn't matter what people say.
What matters is who you are.
And therefore, you will marry me.
Keterlyn Wakenstede.