1 The film starts with the sound of crackling fires and a voice-over briefly referring to the burning of the Church's enemies, followed by the beginning of the story. The book speaks of a hundred heretics that were burned by the order of the powerful Cardinal Grand Inquisitor. Deeply moved, the inquisitor releases him.īoth the chapter in Dostoevsky's book and the film adaptation begin with a dramatic description of the Spanish Inquisition. Christ does not respond, but in the end, he kisses the inquisitor. He explains very rationally how this is in the best interest of mankind.
That night, the inquisitor visits him and proudly tells him how the Inquisition is finally succeeding in suppressing the freedom that Christ died for. Christ is put in jail and will be burned the next day. The people immediately recognize him and although they greet him with reverence and awe, they do not interfere when the Cardinal Grand Inquisitor has him arrested. The day after a hundred heretics were burned at the stake, Christ once again appears on earth. The story of The Grand Inquisitor is set in sixteenth-century Seville, during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Yet, the role the inquisitor plays – or more precisely, the idea of the Spanish Inquisition – is crucial to the film. They are more the stage on which the film was set. Although the title suggests otherwise, this film is not about the inquisition and its inquisitors. In this essay, I will discuss the short film The Grand Inquisitor that was made for the Open University and based on the chapter of the same name from Dostoevsky's book The Brothers Karamazov. Benedictine Centre for Liturgical Studies.The Inquisition in Film The Inquisition in Film.The Inquisition in History The Inquisition in History.
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