The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.
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Fantastic!
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
this film gets off to a very slow start and some aspects of the production are pretty cheesy... the period costumes and some of the sets and the manner of conveying that we are in "hell" when we are there, are not exactly stunning.... also Bibi's husband to be is said to be 25 and he looks about 40.but do stick with it because it does become really really funny and there are a lot of great lines I have to have at least 10 lines in my comment so I'll praise Bibi's acting... also the other woman, who plays her mother... and I"ll say the film is also very sweet.Bergman fans will not be disappointed in the lightness cause there is plenty of heaviness too in the scenes between the maiden and DJAfter thinking about this film awhile it hit me a lot harder what's seems to be being said. In a sense some people seem to have grace such that even sin can't touch them, even sinning can't touch them, because of how they do it, somehow skirting the devil, while they don't by any means have to become angels themselves. wow!
In order to get cured from a sty in his eye, the devil (Stiq Järrel) sends Don Juan (Jarl Kulle), his servant Pablo (Sture Lagerwall) and his worst devil to earth to seduce Britt-Marie (Bibi Andersson), the virgin daughter of a vicar (Nils Poppe) and makes she loses her chastity. This unusual Ingmar Bergman's movie is a slow and very theatrical comedy spoken in English, divided in three acts and with use of many chords in harpsichord. Bibi Andersson is very beautiful as the twenty-two years old woman who caused the sty in the devil's eye. The story is ironic and funny, with great direction and performance of the cast, an Ingmar Bergman's trademark. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): 'O Olho do Diabo' ('The Devil's Eye')Obs: On 06 March 2005, I received the following remark from an IMDb User: "Please note that the original language for the movie "Djävulens öga" is Swedish and not English as you say in your comment. I realise that you saw a dubbed version, but the casual reader will think that it's in English when they read your comment. "
A woman's chastity gives the Devil sty in his eye, so he sends Don Juan back to Earth from Hell to seduce her, but the modern-day woman finds his old-fashioned charm amusing rather than irresistible.No masterpiece but funny and Nils Poppe has some really funny scenes. Rating:4/5
An old theme, the devil plotting against people , but also funny in that things don't always turn out the way it seems they should. Also very funny, for a Swedish movie.