<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $91.6 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Season of the Witch is a 2011 American historical fantasy adventure film starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman, and directed by Dominic Sena . Cage and Perlman star as Teutonic Knights who return from the Crusades to find their fatherland ruined by the Black Death . Two church elders accuse a girl (Claire Foy) of being a witch responsible for the destruction; they command the two knights to transport the girl to a monastery so the monks can lift her curse from the land . The film draws inspiration from the 1957 film The Seventh Seal . It reunited Sena and Cage, who had previously worked together on Gone in 60 Seconds . </P> <P> Development on the film began in 2000 when the spec script by screenwriter Bragi F. Schut was purchased by MGM . The project moved from MGM to Columbia Pictures to Relativity Media, where the film was finally produced by Charles Roven and Alex Gartner . Filming took place primarily in Austria, Hungary, and Croatia . Season of the Witch was released on January 7, 2011, in the United States, Canada, and several other territories . </P> <P> In Villach in the 13th century, three women are accused of witchcraft by a priest . While one claims to be a witch through persuasion from the church, one doesn't deny it and curses the priest . He orders them hanged and drowned . That done, he urges the guards to pull them back up for a ritual to make sure the so - called witches never come back to life . The guards refuse, claiming they are dead enough . The priest returns late at night to perform the ritual . The third corpse, one of a hag with a blind eye, takes on a demonic appearance and kills the priest . </P>

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