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
Requiem for a Nun And I met him, too. I ran into him at a dinner party." In 2013, the judge dismissed Faulkner Literary Rights LLC's claim, ruling that the use of the quote in the film was "de minimis" and constituted "fair use". The novel was dramatized for the theater in 1956 by Albert Camus, entitled "Requiem pour une nonne". Camus also wrote the preface to the 1957 French translation of the novel by Maurice Coindreau. The novel was a co-source for the 1961 film "Sanctuary". Requiem for a Nun Requiem for a Nun is a work of fiction written by William Faulkner