This film had no idea when it was set, but it certainly wasn't meant to be the medieval period.
People use the term "Middle Ages" loosely, but they ended in the late 15th or 16th century. There were firearms around by then - primitive ones were in use from the mid 14th century in Europe - but nothing like the ones in this movie.
As for the movie: the costumes look vaguely late 18th / early 19th century, which is when the Brothers Grimm were around. But witchcraft's still a capital crime and absolutely everybody accepts that it's real, which puts us _early_ 18th century at latest, more likely 17th. The woodcuts we see in printed documents also look more 17th century than later.
But all the guns are late 19th / early 20th century with a few trappings to make them look more olde-worlde. And a lot of other technology (the taser for instance) is a lot later even than that.
Frankly, I don't know why they bothered setting it in the supposedly real world. The geography's almost as bad as the tech (Augsburg's a major city with a damn big river running through it, not a village in the forest). Since it's already about witches and trolls, they could have just said "Here's a fantasy world with some similarities to 18th century Germany, enjoy."
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jmarkoff2
10 years ago
The film is set in a generic yesteryear in a generic European country.
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