SUMMARY

In 1609, an inquisitorial judge named Pierre de Lancre was sent to the Basque country, where 80 people were executed on the basis of unsubstantiated rumors...   “Witches, Chronicle of a massacre” dusts off and questions the dark hours of a violent past, and sheds new light on our current struggles for equality and justice. 

Through a large-scale film aimed at a wide audience, the unprecedented deciphering of this affair questions the mechanisms that led to these persecutions, which are still the subject of much debate among historians today.