As the Crypt art collection covers all periods from the Middle Age to the recent era, it seems only fair to include modern art forms like movies.
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The movie mixes Catharina's legend with the political conflict between the Roman co-emperors Maxentius and Constantinus. The production was delayed considerably because of financial problems. The final movie version suffered extensive cuts. The pictures below are from a pre-final version. Here Catharina suffers various tortures; so she is tied to a wheel and suspended in public, and in the ends has all her bones broken with a spiked roller.
The (new) execution scene is here: movie clip (MP4 format, 69 MB)
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In the final version, Catharina is executed by first binding, then nailing her to a wheel and dropping her from a height.
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