Trouble in the Brotherhood: The Devil's Playground Revisited

This article looks at a film considered to be an Australian great – Fred Schepisi's The Devil's Playground (1976). The film is set in a Catholic seminary and explores themes surrounding puberty and burgeoning sexual desires among the pupils, and sexual repression and religious fanaticism among the teaching brothers. The article covers the background to the film, its daring and unusual nature and its look and sound.