Termed "a comedy of sympathy about the old Christian fear of sex" (David         Elliott), The Devil's Playground is directed by Fred Schepisi              (Barbarossa, Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and deals with the repressive     attitudes of a Catholic boarding school as a group of young boys struggle to   come to terms with their own emotional and sexual identity. "The people in     Fred Schepisi's The Devil's Playground are like sculpted figures that    glow with their own light" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). Winner of       five Australian Film Institute awards, including Best Film, Director,          Fred Schepisi---Australia---1976---99 mins.