The Devils

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-07-16

Languages:

English, Latin

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

X

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (7601 Reviews)

Director:

Ken Russell

Genres:

Drama History

Cast:

Vanessa Redgrave Oliver Reed Dudley Sutton Max Adrian

Writer:

Ken Russell (screenplay)

John Whiting (play)

Aldous Huxley (novel)

Fullplot:

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.

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