Witchhammer 1970 Based on Kladivo na čarodějnice by Václav Kaplický, written and directed by Otakar Vávra. A Czechoslovak drama about witch trials in the 1670s.
After being caught not eating the communion bread a woman admits wanting the bread to help a milk less cow start giving milk again. Thoughts of witchcraft fill the heads of the local land owner. An inquisitor is called in and soon there's torture a foot. The inquisitor's thugs use torture and brain washing techniques to make her admit to being a witch and engaging in sorcery and all sorts of sexual activities. It's easy to get confessions out of their victims with a few more turns of the thumbscrews or the foot press. First they burn one lady, then three ladies and finally there's hardly any room on the large field to set up another stake to burn more women at one time.
The inquisitor bothers a local priest, he pushes back and gets burnt at the stake for his sex crimes. The inquisitor is so full of himself he starts to believe he's better than everyone else. The movie is seen as an allegory for the 1950s show trials perpetrated on the Czechs by the Russians. It reminds me how easy it is the get citizens to do stupid and cruel things. The movie was pulled from the theaters shortly after release and not shown until 1989. It's a decent film but not the sort of thing I seek out. It's more political drama than horror film, that's less interesting to me.