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The Devils (1971)

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Starring (View all)
Vanessa Redgrave Vanessa Redgrave
Sister Jeanne
Oliver Reed Oliver Reed
Urbain Grandier
Dudley Sutton Dudley Sutton
Baron De Laubardemont
Max Adrian Max Adrian
Ibert
Gemma Jones Gemma Jones
Madeleine
Murray Melvin Murray Melvin
Mignon
Michael Gothard Michael Gothard
Father Barre
Georgina Hale Georgina Hale
Philippe


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Ken Russell Ken Russell
(screenplay)


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3 years, 10 months ago at Apr 10 18:44
(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.
Tags: Horror (10), Drama (8), 1971 (6), Surrealism (6), British (4), Torture (4), 1970s (4), History (3), Religion (3), Lust (3), Crucifixion (3), UK (2), France (2), Gore (2), Convent (2), Brutality (2), Biography (1), 70s (1), English (1), French (1)
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" The Devils is a 1971 historical drama horror film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. A dramatised historical account of the fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft after the possessions in Loudun, France, the plot also focuses on Sister Jeanne des Anges, a sexually repressed nun who incites the accusations. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, The Devils is in p"


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