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The Nuns Story
Giving up everything, Gabrielle Van Der Mai decides to become a nun. On her attempt to turn her dream into the truth, she has to face with many difficulties. Can she overcome them and reach her dream ? Let's come to the movie to find the answer
6 July 1923, Cwmgwrach, South Wales, UK
20 December 1924, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies
17 September 1931, Kensington, London, England, UK
20 November 1900, London, England, UK
8 December 1899, Lagos, Nigeria
4 April 1925, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
6 September 1912, Partney, Lincolnshire, England, UK
19 May 1932, Düsseldorf, Germany
8 April 1913, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies
29 March 1913, Dublin, Ireland
November 01, 2007
A superbly restrained piece of filmmaking, with Zinnemann directing in simple, unadorned style and Hepburn giving a truly radiant performance.
November 01, 2007
Fred Zinnemann's production is a soaring and luminous film.
August 01, 2005
Moving, controversial (for its time) religious tale starring Audrey Hepburn.
May 20, 2003
In the role of the nun, Miss Hepburn is fluent and luminous.
May 24, 2003
Zinneman, an intelligent if dullish director, has avoided such obvious pitfalls in this adaptation of a factually based best-seller.
August 23, 2006
Zinnemann's drama depicts the spiritual tug of war of a young nun, beautifully played by Audrey Hepburn, between adherence to vows of chastity and obedience and rebellion against those values for her self-fulfillment
October 04, 2002
One of Audrey's finest dramatic moments
April 08, 2010
... on target and godlike.
April 12, 2006
Certainly doesn't offer the positive depiction of religious life common in 1950s Hollywood, but it's not an anti-religious or anti-Catholic depiction either.
June 24, 2006
It's still a long haul (made no lighter by Franz Waxman's abominably insistent score) for anyone not committed to theological problems of faith, conscience and obedience.
