Ken Russell’s The Devils

Name: Ken Russell’s The Devils
Released: 2026-10-15
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Cast: Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Jones, Georgina Hale, Murray Melvin

<font face="Libre Franklin, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.3px;">Ken Russell’s 1971 The Devils remains one of cinema’s most transgressive and incendiary provocations, a feverish account of the Loudun possessions witchcraft trial in 17th-century France. Oliver Reed stars as Urbain Grandier, a wildly charismatic libertine priest who defies Cardinal Richelieu’s consolidation of power. Vanessa Redgrave’s Sister Jeanne is a sexually repressed, hunchbacked Abbess obsessed with Grandier with an intensity that ignites accusations of demonic possession among her convent’s nuns. Already a target for reprisals due to his political resistance, Grandier’s promiscuity eventually lands him on the wrong side of a powerful family.</span></font>PT1H54M2026-10-15

Oliver Reed

Vanessa Redgrave

Gemma Jones

Georgina Hale

Murray Melvin

Ken Russell

Ken Russell’s The Devils"Ken Russell’s The Devils"

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