They believe that there is a necromancer resurrecting people and protecting the village from the plague. However, the emissary of the bishop Ulric (Sean Bean) arrives in the monastery recruiting a religious man to guide his soldiers and him through the forest and the swamp to the village. She tells that she will wait for him in the forest, but Osmund tells that he will stay in the Staveley Monastery since he is a man of God. The young monk Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) asks his beloved Averill (Kimberley Nixon) to travel to a remote village after the Dentwich Forest where the Black Death has not reached yet. In 1348, year of our Lord, England is devastated by the Bubonic plague that spreads death in the lands and villages. You don't think it could happen, well remember some of the fanaticism surrounding a "gay" disease back when it came to our shores and think on that. Still it's a fine effort and imagine to yourselves how these people might have dealt with the AIDS epidemic in those times. The atmosphere and camera-work are superb, sad to say though the story is a bit muddled. The church wants an explanation and is willing to mete out the appropriate punishment for whatever. Heresy, witchcraft, a return to the pagan religions of old something has kept these people healthy in a world where the stench of death is all around. The mission which Bean is in charge of and that Redmayne serves as guide is to a village where suspected unbelief has broken out. Black Death's biggest strength was that the film positively reeks of the atmosphere of the bleak times. Death was familiar in Europe with both the war and the pestilence, some thought it was the sign of the end times. It did more to level the population of England and France than the 100 Years War which both countries were engaging in at the time. Sean Bean as the warrior inquisitor and Eddie Redmayne as a monk lead a cast that deals with a story of the great bubonic plague epidemic that swept over the eastern and later western world.
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