The Nun's Story
by Fred Zinnemann
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Actor: Audrey Hepburn, Dean Jagger, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Peter FinchDirector: Fred Zinnemann
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 152 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: Obedience to rules and regulations
Summary: 5 Stars
This old film is well done and offers an interesting look inside the walls of a Roman Catholic cloister in Belgium, and then at the missionary field of Africa. But it also provides the same message as the Bible's Old Testament, that strict obedience to an exacting set of rules and regulations is impossible. One ends up doing as is implied in this film--they either cheat or they leave.
Summary of The Nun's Story
Fred Zinnemann's epic drama is a splendid showcase for Audrey Hepburn, who stars as the young nun Sister Luke, who is deeply spiritual yet conflicted about whether or not she can conform to convent life. Though the film is a mesmerizing--and quite leisurely--two and a half hours, its plot is fairly simple--young Gabrielle (Hepburn) enters the convent pledging her life to God, learns the disciplines associated with the life, receives her dream assignment of going to the Congo as a missionary nurse, and once there, is forced to face whether she is meant for the rigorous life of poverty, chastity, and most difficult of all, obedience. The film does a marvelous job of portraying the challenges of cloistered life without being either off-putting or overly romantic. And Hepburn, sometimes with only her eyes, communicates all the drive, faith, and conflict of a young woman so torn. --Anne HurleyStory of Gabrielle Van Der Mal who gives up everything to become a nun facing incredible odds in the Congo and then at the mother house in France at the outbreak of World War II.Running Time: 151 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569739864 Manufacturer No: 73986
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