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上个世纪的30年代，一位德国文学教授约翰·赫德 (英文John Halder ；Viggo Mortensen 饰)身边有年迈且病重的母亲、妻子、情人和犹太好友，由于撰写主张安乐死的小说，他受到了纳粹的注意。从开始的不情愿，到后来的纳粹军官，赫德在感性和理性的天平上一直小心翼翼得平衡着。这就是为什么你很难做到去恨这样一个人物的原因，一个极其脆弱和敏感又极其爱慕虚名、自负的结合体，一个被卷入纳粹运动洪流的人。本片有别于一般的纳粹电影，并非《朗读者》一样将观众牵入大是大非当中，更没有一个盖棺定论的“结局”。对于安乐死的主题和二战的特殊历史背景下，赫德教授的故事，还需要观众的一双慧眼自己去甄别其主旨。 本片改编自英国剧作家C. P. Taylor的同名戏剧。。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。讲述了书院学子陶生和王生被卷入一系列神秘死亡事件后，通过以传说中的“猫妖”和邪术为引线，逐渐揭露出事件之下关于权力腐败与学术欺诈的故事。。