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The Devils
1971 1h 54m Ken Russell

The Devils

★ 7.7 IMDb
Drama History Horror
A charismatic 17th-century French priest becomes the target of a sexually obsessed nun’s witchcraft accusations, which corrupt church and state officials are all too happy to exploit.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Writer Ken Russell
Cast Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
DP David Watkin
Production Designer Derek Jarman
Music Peter Maxwell Davies
Essays and Criticism
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L'Amour Fou by Gerald Pratley, FIPRESCI
On Ken Russell
Ken Russell, 1927 - 2011 by David Hudson, MUBI Notebook Refusing to Lie Down: Truth, Fiction, and Ken Russell’s Early Television Documentaries by Bart Versteirt, photogénie Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History, Brussels, BE, 19–20 March 2014 by Kevin M. Flanagan, Alphaville
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