How do you kill yourself if you want to go to heaven after death, but suicide is a mortal sin? This is a very practical challenge for unenlightened peasants in the 18th century - Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala transform it into a visually stunning hellride into the history of the feminine. Based on historical court records, Des Teufels Bad shows that religion and the human body are only legal systems of different kinds. The fear of death comes alongside the fear of God's punishment and of his worldly helpers, the masters of the Holy Inquisition.

And who is to blame for everything? Possibly the devil... Enlightened horror cinema from Austria.