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Title The Devil's Playground
Copyright Title The Devil's Playground
Released 1976
Production Year 1976
Comments Edited by Prue Willsher. The whole emphasis of the film is on puberty and the way its outlets are stifled and subjugated by the Church's mediaeval rules. The film is almost a documentary observation of growing up in a Roman Catholic seminary in the 1950's.
Synopsis the Devil's Playground is a sensitive study of young catholic boys training to become brother's in an Australian country seminary. It depicts their adolescent experience with the problems, the attitudes and values of the brothers who are their spiritual and physical guardians. The film focuses on the restrictions and the discipline which the religious life demands.

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