YMMV / Die Pilgerin

• Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: In the film, due to the added romance between Damian and Tilla, Tilla's subsequent love for Sebastian seems too sudden and hardly believable, especially since it begins when she doesn't know of Damian's death.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Was Aymer de Saltilieu an Affably Evil but strictly honest guy who considered Tilla a random one-time affair and then conveniently saw a chance to marry her off to Sebastian? Or was he in love with Tilla, motivated by I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and settling with Felicia for the sake of politics?
  • Felicia, for that matter. We don't see how she was treated as Hugues de Saltilieu's charge before her flight – but knowing Baron Hugues, probably, to put it mildly, not well. It is possible she was Driven to Villainy, seeing that in the misogynistic world there was no way for her to get out of an upcoming abusive marriage except through the less honorable means.
  • Ilga, while surely an It's All About Me villainess, can be interpreted differently with regards to her motives in pursuing Otfried. Did she love him or was she only after money and status?
• Badass Decay: Subverted as Ambros never really was a badass, people just thought so because he was so large and strong. But after he runs away in fright during the robbers' attack, he sinks into depression and doesn't even bother to pretend he is one anymore.
• Complete Monster: Otfried Willinger is Tilla's cruel, greedy brother. He kills his own father to inherit his money, and then marries Tilla off to an abusive husband to cement his political alliance with the latter. Otfried eventually succeeds in seizing the power in the town and sells its trading rights to the Duke of Bavaria in exchange for privileges for himself. The thugs that support Otfried and the Bavarian mercenaries under his command terrorize the populace, with rapes, robberies, and beatings becoming a common occurrence in the streets. Indifferent even to the suffering of his closest family, let alone the rest of the townsfolk, Otfried only cares about constantly accumulating power and wealth.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance (as it is a historical novel): Radegund and Blanche get married at fourteen – both to men of twenty-odd. While the former doesn't exactly have a say in the matter and her marriage ends tragically, the latter's marriage is a happy one (and her UST with her future spouse begins when she's thirteen). Probably to avoid at least some squickiness, it's said in the epilogue that Starrheim "was gentle" with Blanche for about three years and rarely slept with her.
• Karma Houdini:
  • Felicia de Lacaune, a selfish plotter and indirectly a murderess, doesn't get even a single reproof, and what she does get is a marriage with Aymer and a title of Baroness. However, it's hinted in the epilogue about how her life had changed since the wedding, so perhaps there was a case of Break the Haughty... It's possible, because Karma Houdini isn't usually what villains get in Iny Lorentz's novels.
  • Sepp in the movie undoubtedly, and to a lesser extent in the book. He treats his wife horribly, behaves like a complete jerk during the pilgrimage, abandons his fellow pilgrims for the hope of a high position, and murders Hugues de Saltilieu for a one-night stand with Felicia. What does he get? An important place in Count Starrheim's service. Justified, though, because of his sincere repentance both for his behavior and especially the killing, and he does act heroically in battle with the Englishmen.
  • Aymer. He did force Tilla to sleep with him, and no one even remembers it – frankly, because no one ever finds out. By the end Aymer is a war hero and beloved by the royalty and the commons.
• Moral Event Horizon: Otfried crosses his when he helps Gürtler murder his father.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Played with. Koloman Laux sends his son to search for Tilla, though Sebastian begs him to allow him to stay and hunt down the Bavarian conspiracy. Laux Senior, however, believes the conspiracy is all Sebastian's imagination and that a serious task will do him good. Then that same conspiracy turns out to be pretty real and Otfried takes over the town with the Bavarians' help. But sending Sebastian after Tilla was a good idea after all from the pilgrims' point of view – Sebastian did prove himself helpful and a good friend. And then he won Tilla's love and became a battle hero. And then he was awarded a title and returned to Tremmlingen with an army that threw out the invaders. How much was broken and how much was fixed by Koloman's decision is debatable.