The Devil, Probably (1977)
June 15, 1977Release Date
The Devil, Probably (1977)
June 15, 1977Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Antoine Monnier
Charles
Tina Irissari
Alberte
Henri de Maublanc
Michel
Laetitia Carcano
Edwige
Nicolas Deguy
Valentin
Régis Hanrion
Dr. Mime, Psychanalyste
Geoffroy Gaussen
Libraire
Roger Honorat
Commissaire
Vincent Cottrel
Laurence Delannoy
Laetitia Martinneti
Michel Chanderli
Producer
Robert Bresson
Director / Screenplay
Christine Fornelli
Makeup Artist
Humbert Balsan
Second Assistant Director
Thierry Bodin
Second Assistant Director
Mahaut de Cordon
Second Assistant Director
Eric Deroo
Second Assistant Director
Mylène Van der Mersch
First Assistant Director
Jean-Pierre Bazerolle
Set Dresser
Daniel Couteau
Sound Effects
Jacques Maumont
Sound Mixer
Georges Prat
Sound
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Producer
Stéphane Tchalgadjieff
Producer
Marc Maurette
Executive Producer
Alain Depardieu
Line Producer
Philippe Sarde
Original Music Composer
Pasqualino De Santis
Director of Photography
Germaine Artus
Editor
Eric Simon
Production Design
Jackie Budin
Costume Design
Dominique Lyon
Roland De Corbiac
Nadine Boyer-Vidal
Miguel Irissari
Thadee Klossowsky
Martin Schlumberger
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 15, 1977
Original NameLe Diable probablement
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 37m
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This Movie Is About.
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The Devil Probably (French: Le Diable probablement), also spelled The Devil, Probably is a 1977 French drama film directed by Robert Bresson. 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 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 [...]. [I]n 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."
Fassbinder would go on to refer to the film in his own 1979 film Die Dritte Generation, where a character remarks that it is "a sad movie", but "so long as the movies are sad, our lives can stay funny".
The critic J. Hoberman described the film with one sentence: "A Dostoyevskian story of a tormented soul, presented in the stylized manner of a medieval illumination." Richard Hell described the film as "by far the most punk movie ever."
The Devil Probably was Bresson's penultimate work, preceding his 1983 film L'Argent.
Upon release, the film was banned in France for those aged under eighteen because of its suicidal themes.