The Devils
1971·United Kingdom·103 min.
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This is the disturbing story of a highly influential priest in the French city of Loudon. 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.
DirectorKen Russell
MusicPeter Maxwell Davies
CinematographyDavid Watkin
CastVanessa Redgrave·Oliver Reed·Dudley Sutton·Max Adrian·Gemma Jones·Murray Melvin·Michael Gothard·Georgina Hale
Original titleThe Devils (Ken Russell's Film of The Devils)