Cinema Classics: Devils

As part of the Cinema Classics, we invite you to the screening of an uncompromising and directorial version of the film restored in 4K! Although the film was made 55 years ago, it will be the official Polish premiere of a film that has been cursed, censored and banned for years!

DEVILS

October 27, 2026, 7:00 PM

Forum Cinema, 5 Legionowa Street

tickets: PLN 20/normal, PLN 18/special “family” ticket (min. 3 people) — at the cinema box office and online

adult film (18+)

Lecture and discussion: Marcin Stachowicz

Devils

United Kingdom 1971, 111′

directed by Ken Russell

Cast: Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Gothard, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin

The film is based on the novel “Devils of Loudun” by Aldous Huxley, inspired by the real events of XXVII century France.

Richelieu broke the resistance of the Huguenots, the country is ruled by Louis XIII. Father Urbain Grandier is a Catholic splinter. His obsession is to seek faith through physical sensations — pleasure and pain. Grandier is the father of a considerable number of children and the object of the erotic obsessions of Jeanne, sister of the superior of the Ursuline Order. When a young priest openly violates celibacy and unceremoniously marries his mistress Madeline, it causes a scandal. Grandier's opponents get a crown argument for initiating action against him.

The premiere screening of the restored and remastered version took place at this year's Cannes Film Festival!

Marcin Stachowicz

Film critic, essayist, cultural scholar. Grand Prix winner in the Krzysztof Mętrak Competition. He collaborates with, among others, “Dwutygodnik”, Filmweb, “Time of Culture”, “Szum” and “Political Criticism”. Co-author of the collective volumes “David Lynch. Polish Perspectives” and “Cutting Bodies. Moving images”. He is interested in the intertwining of visual culture and politics, cinema that transcends aesthetic norms and engages in social affairs, the history of the avant-garde and countercultural movements. Originally from a post-industrial city in Mazovia, she enjoys hardcore punk music, fat novels and surreal poetics.