The Keep
1983Set 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.
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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
Rosalie Crutchley
as Josefa
Frederick Warder
as Border Guard 1
Bruce Payne
as Border Guard 2
David Cardy
as Alexandru's Son
John Eastham
as Alexandru's Second Son
Philip Bloomfield
as Josefa's Son
Yashaw Adem
as Carlos
Stephen Whittaker
as S.S. Kommando
Ian Ruskin
as S.S. Kommando
Stephen Jenn
as S.S. Kommando
Benedick Blythe
as S.S. Kommando
Robin Langford
as S.S. Kommando
Renny Krupinski
as Wehrmacht Soldier
Peter Guinness
as Wehrmacht Soldier
Sean Baker
as Wehrmacht Soldier
Timothy Block
as Wehrmacht Soldier
Owain Griffiths
as Wehrmacht Soldier (uncredited)
Ralph G. Morse
as Wehrmacht Soldier (uncredited)
Doug Robinson
as Guard (uncredited)
Peter Ross-Murray
as Nazi Soldier (uncredited)