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The Devil's Playground: Directed by Fred Schepisi. With Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate. Fred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.
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The Devil's Playground is a 1976 Australian drama film written, produced and directed by Fred Schepisi. It is a semi-autobiographical film which tells the story of a boy growing up and going to school in a Catholic juniorate administered by De La Salle Brothers.
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The Devil's Playground is a very well composed debut film from Fred Schepisi. Set in a catholic school, Schepisi documents the sexual awakening of boys and the sexual repression of their teachers.
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- Fred Schepisi
The Devil's Playground is a 1976 semi-autobiographical film by Australian director Fred Schepisi. It tells the story of a boy growing up and going to school in a Catholic...
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions. Fred Schepisi.
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Released less than a year later, The Devil's Playground (1976) plays like the male flipside of that film as it explores the multitudes of tensions and psychological conflicts at a Catholic seminary school in the early 1950s.
