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Mother Joan of the Angels Blu-Ray (UK Import)
Second Run

Pre-order - Release date: 09.11.2026

Original title: Matka Joanna od Aniołów

Year: 1961
Country: Poland
Region code: A/B/C
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060114152427

Image: 1.37:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: Polish

Subtitles: English

Age rating: PG

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Ciepielewska, Lucyna Winnicka, Maria Chwalibog, MieczysLaw Voit

Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz


Synopsis:

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).

Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Mother Joan of the Angels 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.

Bonus features:

• Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolow, 1960) presented from a 2K remaster by WFDiF Poland, supervised by cinematographer Jerzy Wójcik.
• An in-depth discussion of the film by the critic, curator and scholar Michał Oleszczyk.
• An expansive filmed appreciation by producer and film historian Michael Brooke.
• The Projection Booth commentary.
• Booklet featuring essays by author and film lecturer Dr David Sorfa, and Michael Brooke.
• New and improved English subtitle translation.