14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague. Season of the Witch is a 2011 American fantasy-horror action film starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Dominic Sena. Cage stars with Ron Perlman 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 and being responsible for the destruction and command the knights to transport the girl to a monastery so the monks there can lift her curse from the land