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Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Ken Russell
Production: Warner Bros.
  4 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
R
Year:
1971
111 min
2,164 Views


the chief of accursed murder...

Kiss him. Kiss him.

...the head of sacrilege,

the master of the worst actions,

the teacher of heretics,

the inventor of all obscenities,

the foul, impious one... Don't!

Judas! Judas! Judas!

Confess you are the Devil's servant.

Renounce your master!

I am about to meet the God

who is my witness

and I have spoken the truth.

Confess! Confess!

You have only a moment to live.

Only a moment.

And then I go to that just

and fearful judgment

to which you, too,

Reverend Father will soon be called.

May your body be consumed

by eternal fire!

Away, priest! He's to be strangled.

I promised he was to be strangled!

Strangled! Strangled! Strangled!

Is this what you promised me?.

Where is the noose?. Where is the noose?.

No! I need a noose!

The flames! I can't, the flames!

Sorry, priest. Sorry!

Burn, burn, burn!

- Burn! Burn!

- Watch, bastard.

See how your mother's honour

was avenged.

Lucky little bastard.

It's not every day baby sees

Daddy burned to death.

Don't look at me!

Look at your city!

If your city is destroyed,

your freedom is destroyed also!

Unrepentant to the last!

The fiend still speaks.

Confess! Confess!

If you would remain free men,

fight!

Fight them or become their slaves!

I'm purging my own devils.

What devils?.

Isacaaron, Balaam...

They say they can stand up

to the Church,

but they can't stand up to this b*tch.

Jeanne, you're being hysterical.

Where's Father Barre?.

I was expecting him.

He's off to Poitiers.

A nun is reported to be having

commerce with your lsacaaron,

in the form of a three-legged dog.

But there was going to be a public

exorcism tomorrow in St Peter's.

Father Mignon could manage.

Father Mignon has been put away.

He's quite demented.

He keeps babbling that we've

destroyed an innocent man.

And with no signed confession

to prove otherwise,

everyone has the same opinion.

Pity, that.

No, with Grandier gone,

you are no longer possessed.

- It's simple.

- What shall I do?.

Pray for your salvation. Do penance.

Stay here quietly, of course.

What else?.

Well, there'll be a few tourists

occasionally to brighten things up.

But that won't last long. Soon the town

will die, you will be left in peace

and oblivion.

Oh, I almost forgot.

Souvenir.

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Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. His films in the main were liberal adaptations of existing texts, or biographies, notably of composers of the Romantic era. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios. He is best known for his Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Who's Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980). Russell also directed several films based on the lives of classical music composers, such as Elgar, Delius, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Liszt.Film critic Mark Kermode, speaking in 2006, and attempting to sum up the director's achievement, called Russell, "somebody who proved that British cinema didn't have to be about kitchen-sink realism—it could be every bit as flamboyant as Fellini. Later in his life he turned to making low-budget experimental films such as Lion's Mouth and Revenge of the Elephant Man, and they are as edgy and 'out there' as ever".Critics have accused him of being obsessed with sexuality and the Catholic Church. more…

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