Le dialogue des Carmélites (I dialoghi delle Carmelitane) (1960)

In the midst of the French Revolution, the young Blanche de la Force decides to protect a convent and therefore enters the Carmelite order. There he meets the lively nun Sister and mother Constance Marie, among others, and is happy with them despite the external conflicts and pressures of his father to leave the convent. Film based on real and tragic story happened with the sixteen Carmelite nuns of the Convent of Compiègne in 1794, and collected by the French writer Georges Bernanos in his play of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the piece "The Last of the scaffold" by the writer Gertrud von Le Fort.