Caligari, 14.04.2014, 22:00
DIABEŁ / THE DEVIL
January 1793. The Prussian army marches into Greater Poland. After a massacre in a convent a young nun and the would-be regicide Jakub are led to safety by a stranger. Jakub now becomes both witness to and agent of the collapse of any residual cohesion in a doomed society that abandons itself up to excess, murder and treachery. In thrall to the stranger – the devil in person – Jakub becomes a murderer. Reminiscent of Ken Russell’s ecstatic films in its deliberate provocation, DIABEŁ / THE DEVIL pulsates with daring fantasies of violence, sex and power, and was viewed as a heretical declaration of war. The drastic horror story never obtained release.
Poland 1972
119 min, 35mm, colour
DIRECTOR
Andrzej Żuławski
SCREENPLAY
Andrzej Żuławski
CAMERA
Maciej Kijowski
EDITOR
Krzysztof Osiecki
CAST
Wojciech Pszoniak
Leszek Teleszyński
Małgorzata Braunek
PRODUCTION
Zespół Filmowy X, Poland
PROVIDED BY
Filmoteka Narodowa, Poland
SALES
Studio Filmowe Kadr, Poland