Mother Joan of the Angels Blu-ray
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Posted September 12, 2026 08:10 PM by Webmaster
British label Second Run is preparing a Blu-ray release of Jerzy Kawalerowicz's Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), starring Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Maria Chwalibóg, Kazimierz Fabisiak, and Zygmunt Zintel. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on November 9.
Description: A landmark of Polish cinema, this celebrated film is based on the documented story of the 'demonic possession' of a group of nuns that led to the burning of a priest at the stake in Loudun, France in 1634 (also the basis for Ken Russell's notorious 1971 film The Devils).
Kawalerowicz's film is a spare, visually astonishing and profoundly disturbing exploration of faith, repression, fanaticism and sexuality. Aided by an extraordinary performance by Lucyna Winnicka as Mother Joan, Kawalerowicz produces one of cinema's most evocative and intense studies of the tragedy of emotion repressed by dogma.
Description: A landmark of Polish cinema, this celebrated film is based on the documented story of the 'demonic possession' of a group of nuns that led to the burning of a priest at the stake in Loudun, France in 1634 (also the basis for Ken Russell's notorious 1971 film The Devils).
Kawalerowicz's film is a spare, visually astonishing and profoundly disturbing exploration of faith, repression, fanaticism and sexuality. Aided by an extraordinary performance by Lucyna Winnicka as Mother Joan, Kawalerowicz produces one of cinema's most evocative and intense studies of the tragedy of emotion repressed by dogma.
