Production comapanies: Allegrofilm Produktion (Austria), Film and Music Entertainment (UK), Eurofilm Studio(Hungary), Samsa Film (Luxembourg), T&C Film (Switzerland)
Backers: Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund, Cinestyria, ORF, Invicta Capital, Film Fund Luxembourg, MFG, SF DRS, Office Federal de la Culture
Genre: Drama
Producents: Helmut Grasser, Mike Downey, Sam Taylor, Claude Waringo, Marcel Hoehn, Peter Miskolczi
Director: Simon Aeby
Script: Susanne Freund, Steve Attridge
Director of Photography: Vladimir Smutny
Production Designer: Christoph Kanter
Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter McDonald, Anastasia Griffith, Steven Berkoff, Eddie Marsan

Synopsis: Central Europe, early 16th century: two childhood friends, Martin & Georg, find themselves on rival sides of a religious war with both of them struggling to do the right thing.

Offical website: www.henker.at

// Festivals

• Cannes Film Festival (May 2005)
• World Film Festival (Aug 2005)

// Links

• Variety review of Shadow of the Sword by Eddy Cockrell
• European Films review: Henker
• Outnow.ch Synopsis & review
• Club Culture Cinema website;film review by Richard Gervais
• EuropeanFilms.net Review and images from Henker
• Film.Virtual-History Images from Henker
• German Cinema website; brief synopsis
• Interview with Simon Aeby
• Uncut website;brief synopsis and review of Henker
• Brief Review of Henker; German site
• Outnow website; images from Henker