The Devil, Probably | |
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Directed by | Robert Bresson |
Produced by | Stéphane Tchalgadjieff |
Written by | Robert Bresson |
Starring |
Antoine Monnier Tina Irissari Henri de Maublanc Laetitia Carcano Nicolas Deguy Régis Hanrion |
Release date
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15 June 1977 |
Running time
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95 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
The Devil Probably (French: Le diable probablement) is a 1977 French drama film by director Robert Bresson. It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.
German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was on that particular jury, and championed Bresson's film:
"Robert Bresson's Le Diable probablement . . . is the most shattering film I've seen this Berlin Festival. I think it's a major film [...]. [I]n the future---and this world will probably last for another few thousand years---this film will be more important than all the rubbish which is now considered important but which never really goes deep enough[.] The questions Bresson asks will never be unimportant."
The critic J. Hoberman described the movie with one sentence: "A Dostoyevskian story of a tormented soul, presented in the stylized manner of a medieval illumination."