¡Joan Of The Angels
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[Machine Translation] Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, Yezhi Kavalerovich's masterpiece! A priest's battle to save a demon-possessed nun. Transcending both political metaphor and Christian criticism, the film approaches the essence of repressed humanity with tense and chilling images. Based on a short story by Polish writer Iwajkiewicz, based on historical facts from 17th century France. The film was also based on this historical fact in Ken Russell's "The Devil in the Body" (1971), which was the 6th best foreign film in the 1962 Kinema Junpo Best Ten. --In the middle of the 17th century, a nunnery on the northern frontier of Poland. The abbess, the beautiful Mother Joanna, is said to be possessed by the devil and is indulging in fornication with the nuns while screaming. Father Surin, ordered by the archbishop, comes to the monastery to exorcise her demons...
Original Release Year: 1961
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