The Keep

The Keep is a film by Director Michael Mann from 1983 and is based on the book The Keep by f. Paul Wilson writer. ==Story[ Edit] == The film tells the story of an abandoned Romanian citadel (The Keep), in which a dangerous demon lives.

One day, the German Wehrmacht take the citadel and its use as a checkpoint. But then comes the demon in action and killed several German soldiers. The Einsatzkommando's come investigate the matter and think that the soldiers by civilians have been killed. But the advent of the Einsatzkommando's makes the demon just bad and soon must also believe this going on.

The Germans eventually decide to track down a Jewish professor. That professor controlled the citadel before and he's the only one who can provide a solution. The professor may liberate the demon but is hampered by a mysterious stranger. That tells that the demon is just as bad as the German soldiers. It comes to a fight, in which the demon dies and the foreigner (a supernatural being) fatally injured. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==In popular culture[ Edit] == Elements from this film (a group of soldiers in an abandoned Castle, a silver cross in a wall, a monster that gets released when the cross is removed, the mysterious stranger who knows the secret of the Castle) by Karel Biddeloo draughtsman were retrieved in the strip album Vrykolakas (1985), from the series the Red Knight .
 * Scott Glenn -Glaeken Trismegestus
 * Ian McKellen -Dr. Theodore Cuza
 * Gabriel Byrne -Major K
 * Robert Prosky -Pastor Fonescu
 * Alberta Watson -Eva Cuza
 * Jürgen Prochnov -Captain Klaus Woermann