The Devils (1971)

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Directed by

Ken Russell

Starring (View all)

Vanessa Redgrave
Sister Jeanne

Oliver Reed
Urbain Grandier

Dudley Sutton
Baron De Laubardemont

Max Adrian
Ibert

Gemma Jones
Madeleine

Murray Melvin
Mignon

Michael Gothard
Father Barre

Georgina Hale
Philippe

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Ken Russell
(screenplay)

John Whiting

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3 years, 1 month ago at Apr 10 18:44

fernando

(OK) Not aged a bit, strong in its barroquism, elegant functional set design (by Derek Jarman) and with the revulsive material of sex and religion and tortures. Reed's tragedy steals protagonism to Redgrave and the nuns stuff.

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Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial.

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