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The Devils (film)
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The Devils (film)
The Devils
is a 1971 British
historical
drama
horror film
directed by
Ken Russell
and starring
Oliver Reed
and
Vanessa Redgrave
. Russell's screenplay is based partly on the 1952 book
The Devils of Loudun
by
Aldous Huxley
, and partly on the 1960 play
The Devils
by
John Whiting
, also based on Huxley's book. The film is a dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of
Urbain Grandier
, a 17th-century
Roman Catholic
priest executed for
witchcraft
following the supposed
possessions in Loudun, France
. Reed plays Grandier in the film and Vanessa Redgrave plays a hunchbacked
sexually repressed
nun who finds herself inadvertently responsible for the accusations.
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