Sep 17th
The Nun's Story***
US 1959. Warner Bros. 149m.
In 1930s Antwerp a surgeon's daughter decides to join a convent and nurses in the Belgian Congo, but tuberculosis and the Second World War test her devotion.
Long, solemn and engrossing semi-factual spiritual drama, very carefully made with a fascinating first hour detailing - accurately - the nuns' apprenticeship, and what follows is also dramatic and involving without ever melodramatising its subject. The ending is also powerful and commendably non-judgemental.
Written by: Robert Anderson, from the book by Kathryn C. Hulme.
Producer: Henry Blanke.
Director:Fred Zinnemann.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock, Beatrice Straight, Patricia Collinge, Rosalie Crutchley, Colleen Dewhurst, Lionel Jeffries, Niall MacGinnis, Dorothy Allison, Errol John, Stephen Murray.
Photography: Franz Planer.
Music: Franz Waxman.
Art Direction: Alexander Trauner.
The Nun's Story***
US 1959. Warner Bros. 149m.
In 1930s Antwerp a surgeon's daughter decides to join a convent and nurses in the Belgian Congo, but tuberculosis and the Second World War test her devotion.
Long, solemn and engrossing semi-factual spiritual drama, very carefully made with a fascinating first hour detailing - accurately - the nuns' apprenticeship, and what follows is also dramatic and involving without ever melodramatising its subject. The ending is also powerful and commendably non-judgemental.
Written by: Robert Anderson, from the book by Kathryn C. Hulme.
Producer: Henry Blanke.
Director:Fred Zinnemann.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock, Beatrice Straight, Patricia Collinge, Rosalie Crutchley, Colleen Dewhurst, Lionel Jeffries, Niall MacGinnis, Dorothy Allison, Errol John, Stephen Murray.
Photography: Franz Planer.
Music: Franz Waxman.
Art Direction: Alexander Trauner.
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