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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Żuławski’s preceding feature shares The Devil’s frantic subjective camera, wartime nightmare logic, bodily dread, and a protagonist propelled through moral and emotional collapse.
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Why this pick
For the same director’s operatic intensity: a feverish, destabilized descent where political unease becomes intimate horror, performed with raw physical abandon.
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Why this pick
Its fractured, visionary storytelling and ecstatic camera style extend The Devil’s sense of civilization breaking down under spiritual, political, and sexual violence.
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Why this pick
A baroque historical nightmare of religious power and persecution, matched to The Devil’s confrontational excess, blasphemous energy, and claustrophobic institutional cruelty.
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Why this pick
A colder, more controlled Polish vision of possession and faith, but with the same unsettling ambiguity between spiritual evil, repression, and human desire.
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01 / THE STORY
The movie opens in the midst of the Prussian invasion of Poland in the 1790s. A Stranger clad in black (Wojciech Pszoniak) enters a prison where Jakub (Leszek Teleszynski) is being held on charges that he tried to assassinate the king as part of a conspiracy. The Stranger frees Jakub in the midst of a riot, tells him to return home, and sends a white-clad nun named Zakonnica (Monika Niemczyk) to accompany Jakub. Zakonnica appears to be a representation of goodness/god and the Stranger a representation of evil/the Devil. Through most of the movie, Zakonnica remains in a state of stunned horror at the things she and Jakub witness.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jacob
