The Nun's Story (1959)

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Directed by

Fred Zinnemann

Starring (View all)

Audrey Hepburn
Sister Luke

Peter Finch
Dr. Fortunati

Edith Evans
Rev. Mother Emmanuel

Peggy Ashcroft
Mother Mathilde

Dean Jagger
Dr. van der Mal

Mildred Dunnock
Sister Margharita

Beatrice Straight
Mother Christophe

Patricia Collinge
Sister William

Written by

Robert Anderson
(screenplay)

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The Nun's Story

12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 29 8:06

JxSxPx

The Nun’s Story was reportedly Audrey Hepburn’s favorite amongst the films she had made. It is easy to see why, not only does she deliver a performance of tremendous strength, delicate beauty and emotional complexity, but it’s one of the most honest depictions of true religious faith that I have seen. It positions that doing good and helping others sometimes means rejecting the dogma that bo... read more

A good movie

11 years ago at May 22 13:33

johanlefourbe

What an intriguing picture... It is rather weird when you think that this movie was a big box-office success and one of the highest grossing pictures coming out that year. Can you imagine if they would release today a movie with a similar story? I have to admit that I'm not a religious person, I don't even believe in God so it was rather difficult for me to understand why such an attractive bright... read more

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5 years, 6 months ago at Dec 3 16:54

fernando

Respectfull, deep, unsdertanding of the fight inside a nun, her preide, her desires, her ingenuity. Hélas, Hepburn wins over the nun.

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Description: In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent, expecting to work as nun in Congo with tropical diseases. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie; to her brother Pierre; and to her beloved father, and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silent and excessive humbleness and humiliation. After a long period working in a mental institution, Gaby is finally assigned to go to Congo, where she works with the Atheist and cynical, but br ... (more)

Release date: 18 July 1959

Tags: Drama (9), Nun (7), Murder (4), Church (4), Convent (4), Congo (3), 1959 (3), Nurse (3), Monkey (2), Catholic (2), War (2), Animal (2), Jungle (2), Tuberculosis (2), Missionary (2), Audrey Hepburn (2), Hospital (2), 1950s (2), You (1), Veil (1)

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