The Devils (film) The Devils (film) The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Russell's screenplay is based partly on the 1952 book "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley, and partly on the 1960 play "The Devils" by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book. The film is a dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest executed for witchcraft following the supposed possessions in Loudun, France. Reed plays Grandier in the film and Vanessa Redgrave plays a hunchbacked sexually repressed
Vanessa Redgrave narrated Patrick Keiller's semi-fictional documentary, "Robinson in Ruins" (2010). Since 2012, Redgrave has narrated the BBC series "Call The Midwife". She also played leading roles in two historical films: Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" (which marked actor Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut), in which she plays Volumnia; and Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous" (both 2011), as . Subsequently, she starred with Terence Stamp and Gemma Arterton in the British comedy-drama "Song for Marion" (US: "Unfinished Song", 2012) and with Forest Whitaker in "The Butler" (2013), directed by Lee Daniels. She also appeared with Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in the drama "Foxcatcher" (2014). In 2017, at