![]() 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.
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