Also Known As: Historia de una monja
Company: n/A
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Plot: 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 brilliant, Dr. Fortunati. Sister Luke proves to be very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr. Fortunati miraculous heals her tuberculosis. Years later, she is ordered to return to Belgium and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Sister ...
Cast and Character: Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke / Peter Finch as Dr. Fortunati / Edith Evans as Rev. Mother Emmanuel / Peggy Ashcroft as Mother Mathilde / Dean Jagger as Dr. Van Der Mal / Mildred Dunnock as Sister Margharita / Beatrice Straight as Mother Christophe / Patricia Collinge as Sister William / Rosalie Crutchley as Sister Eleanor / Ruth White as Mother Marcella / Barbara O'Neil as Mother Didyma / Margaret Phillips as Sister Pauline / Patricia Bosworth as Simone / Colleen Dewhurst as Archangel Gabriel / Stephen Murray as Chaplain
Creators: n/A
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, ...
Directors: Fred Zinnemann
Genres: Drama
Location: Belgium
MPAA: Approved
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0053131.jpg
Rating: 7.5
Release Date: 18 July 1959 (USA)
Runtime: 149 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: Her Faith Remained Strong and True in the Face of Africa's Terrors!
Title: The Nun's Story
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053131/
Votes: 5,026
Writers: Robert Anderson / Kathryn Hulme
Year: 1959
The Nun's Story got rated 7.5.
About the movie: 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 brilliant, Dr. Fortunati. Sister Luke proves to be very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr. Fortunati miraculous heals her tuberculosis. Years later, she is ordered to return to Belgium and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Sister ...
Now Voyager got rated 8.4.
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A Night to Remember got rated 7.9.
About the movie: A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later part of Cunard) luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic's sinking from the standpoint of 2nd Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller, himself the most senior of the ill-fated ship's Deck Officers to survive the disaster. (Lightoller later went on to distinguish himself as a line British Naval Officer during the First World War and served as a Senior Naval Staff Officer (convoys) during WWII. Between wars he owned and operated a successful family business producing pleasure craft.) His own survival of the sinking, along with several others, is shown atop one of the liner's two "collapsible" lifeboats which was capsized in floating off the liner as it sank. The picture depicts then known facts (c1958) as reported after the sinking; such as the woeful lack of adequate lifeboats, the ship's band playing true to the very end, White Star's co-owner Bruce Ismay's somewhat less than chivalrous departure from the sinking vessel -...
Ma nuit chez Maud got rated 7.8.
About the movie: The narrator (Jean-Louis), a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond he notices at mass. Vidal, an old school friend, invites him to visit the recently divorced Maud, and the narrator ends up staying the night, having philosophical discussions in her bedroom. Next morning the narrator engineers a meeting with Francoise.
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