Product Details

• Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Michael Gothard
• Directors: Ken Russell
• Format: NTSC, Color, Import
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Film Media
• Run Time: 111 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000SEFWL0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,947 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Based on ¼. Bulgakov's play "Ivan Vasilievich". The time machine of inventor Timofeev links his flat to the remote XVI century, to the halls of Ivan Vasilievich the Terrible. Two our contemporaries who found themselves in the flat by a chance will, get to the remote past. The sovereign "moves" to their place in the present. All of a sudden there emerged a wall between the past and the present. While the engineer was trying to adjust the machine, a lot of unexpected events happened.

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83 of 88 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THROUGH A LENS DISTORTED ........., July 18, 2007

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Minnie and Henery Krumb "yingtongyingtongyidd... (Wormwood Scrubbs) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Devils (Special Uncut Restored Edition 1971) (DVD)

Quality? Dreadful print - straight fron tape, but at least it does seem to be semi-complete, and [courage!!] 'someone' has been thoughtful to make a presenvation attempt.

The Movie? Leaves you gangraped ~ stellar performances by Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave [Glenda Jackson, as legend states, turned this one down - far too graphic even for her sensibilites] as the twisted [yeah, all over - mind, body and soul] Sister madly 'in pash' with the studly priest. Real stuff, graphic, astounding images and performances - the usual Kussell clan present.

NOW, can someone please come up with a collected, restored set of the Ken Russell greats? ["Music Lovers", "Devils", "Mahler", "Savage Messiah", "The Boyfriend"]??

119 of 129 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT THE DVD TO ORDER, September 29, 2007

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Robert H. Garcia "Pyrenees Doggie" (la) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Devils (Special Uncut Restored Edition 1971) (DVD)

This is not a review of Ken Russell's brilliant film, but rather a look see at a rather strange and decrepid version of that film. Yes, for the most part, this is the UK uncensored version with all the frontal nudity and torture you might want to stomach. But beyond that--this is a print that seems to draw from many different sources. The film roller coasters all over the spectrum in terms of color, sound, screen ratio and related. At times it is close to the original in terms of screen ratio and color, but for the most part--it is simply dreadful. I admit that I ordered the film because there simply is no other dvd of the Devils in distribution. But be warned. All of the access options to chapters are completely screwed. My version of the film stuck in places that one could not believe. In fact not only did it stick, but it repeated itself. Never mind the so called "color." At times the film is close to sepia. But enuf. This is not the dvd of this film that you want, but for now it is the only one. You will have so many problems with this dvd that you might finally throw up your hands and say I GIVE IN. And press eject. And doom your memories of the Devils to the waste bin. What a dreadful shame. A perfectly great Russell film has been reduced to dreck. I originally saw the complete film at a WB screening in the US--so some sort of uncensored print does exist here. But of course you can chance it, and order this terrible dvd. Unfortunately what viewing this Inferior does--it simply diminishes the original and makes a viewer wary of ever wanting to chance another viewing in any dvd format. And that is the tragedy. It simply is not worth the cheap price to make this brilliant film a cheap memory.

66 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strange DVD, August 12, 2007

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lost in space "Sam" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devils (Special Uncut Restored Edition 1971) (DVD)

Hard to believe this is an authorized DVD, as the quality is mediocre... not quite as bad as a tape-to-DVD transfer, but almost as poor. On the plus side, the film has been restored with scenes that were originally cut from the U.S. release; and they're as graphic as I remember reading about. There are also two very interesting documentaries about the film's censorship when it was released.

Why didn't Warner Brothers release this?