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
Jemma Redgrave the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art at the age of 18. After graduation, Redgrave landed acting roles in the 1988 stage production of Strindberg's "Easter", in "Lady Windermere's Fan" in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as Emily in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town", Irina in a 1990 revival of Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" in London's West End with her aunts Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, in 1993 with Colin Firth in Alexander Griboyedov's Chatsky at the Almeida Theatre, London and in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 2001 at the Albery Theatre, London. In 2010, she appeared in New York's Public