Word: radiguet
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...difficult to point to the exact things which make a movie great. First, of course, its subject matter must be adequately rich, and "Devil in the Flesh" lives up brilliantly to this specification. The film is based on the autobiographical novel "Le Diable an Corps" by Raymond Radiguet. It shows unflinchingly the great residue of immorality which often accompanies war, and depicts the effect of a chaotic, perturbed world on human emotions...
...Diable au Corps by Raymond Radiguet, a precocious protege of Jean Cocteau, who began it in 1920 when he was 17, published it in 1923, the year he died...