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
Wolf Kahler
as S.S. Adjutant
Jona Jones
as Otto
