Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.

Scott Glenn
as Glaeken Trismegestus

Alberta Watson
as Eva Cuza

Jürgen Prochnow
as Captain Klaus Woermann

Robert Prosky
as Father Mihail Fonescu

Gabriel Byrne
as Major Kaempffer

Ian McKellen
as Dr. Theodore Cuza

William Morgan Sheppard
as Alexandru

Royston Tickner
as Tomescu

Michael Carter
as Radu Molasar

John Vine
as Lutz
Wuchak
**_Arty fantasy/horror taking place at a citadel in Romania during WW2_** In late 1941, a motorized German infantry unit holds a pass in the Carpathian Mountains by occupying a strange fortress that’s “built backwards,” as the captain observes (Jürgen Prochnow). When soldiers start mysteriousl...