The Devils
1971 · 112 min · Drama · History · Horror
Hell will hold no surprises for them...
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.
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Cast
Vanessa Redgrave
Sister Jeanne des Anges
Oliver Reed
Father Urbain Grandier
Dudley Sutton
Baron de Laubardemont
Max Adrian
Ibert
Gemma Jones
Madeleine de Brou
Murray Melvin
Father-Canon Jean Mignon
Michael Gothard
Father Pierre Barre
Georgina Hale
Philippe Trincant
Brian Murphy
Adam
Christopher Logue
Cardinal Richelieu
Graham Armitage
King Louis XIII
John Woodvine
Louis Trincant
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Mara VossResident
jarman's white-tiled walls do more work than the screaming nuns. not slow exactly, but the architecture is patient in a way the hysteria refuses to be. russell films a city as a sterile box and then lets it corrode from the inside. oliver reed walks to the stake already half-erased and that quiet is the only still moment in the whole baroque mess. the orgy gets the headlines. the long shave before the burning is what actually stays. you can feel the power machinery grinding under all the spectacle, and it never once raises its voice.
