Inspired by the true story of seventeenth-century priest Urbain Grandier, accused of bewitching an entire convent of nuns, Ken Russell's The Devils lays bare the collusion of church and state through a searing vision of religious persecution, collective hysteria and institutional corruption. Censored and truncated for over half a century, the film returns here in a landmark director's cut reconstruction that finally reveals the full, uncompromising power of Russell's original vision, a restoration many believed would never happen, reaffirming the film's place among the most overwhelming and incendiary achievements in British cinema. An incendiary, overwhelming achievement finally restored to its full uncompromising power, Ken Russell's searing vision of religious hysteria and institutional corruption losing none of its force after half a century.