Matka Joanna Od Aniołów

Disturbing news from a nunnery is doing the rounds. Allegedly, the Incarnate One and his demons are wreaking havoc there. The nuns even burnt a local priest at the stake. Now a Jesuit priest is supposed to bring light into the darkness - but soon finds himself in a deep crisis of faith, triggered by his thoroughly worldly feelings for the Mother Superior ... Inspired by events in 17th century France - which Ken Russell will later reappraise in THE DEVILS - Kawalerowicz negotiates the power relations of his present day in expressive images: ‘I wanted to make a film about human nature and its innate reaction to oppression and laws that are imposed on it.’ (Florian Widegger)