The Devils
1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
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.
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Oliver Reed · Dudley Sutton · Max Adrian · Gemma Jones · Murray Melvin · Michael Gothard · Georgina Hale
Soundtrack Peter Maxwell Davies
Screenplay Ken Russell · John Whiting · Aldous Huxley
Cinematography David Watkin
Original title The Devils (Ken Russell's Film of The Devils)
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