''The Devil Probably'' (french: Le Diable probablement) is a 1977
French drama film
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Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director.
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. 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
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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 .. 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.''"
Cast
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Antoine Monnier - Charles
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Tina Irissari - Alberte
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Henri de Maublanc - Michel
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Laetitia Carcano - Edwige
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Nicolas Deguy - Valentin
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Régis Hanrion - Dr. Mime, psychoanalyst
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Geoffroy Gaussen - Libraire
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Roger Honorat - Commissaire
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1977 films
1970s French-language films
1977 drama films
Films directed by Robert Bresson
Films scored by Philippe Sarde
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winners
French drama films
1970s French films
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