La religieuse

1966
3.0
La religieuse
Poster La religieuse

Title: La religieuse

Original Title: Suzanne Simonin, la religieuse de Diderot

Year: 1966

Info

  • Country: France Germany
  • Length: 135 Minutes (2 hours 15 min)
  • Genre: Drama
  • Studios: Fidélité Productions
  • Distributor: Filmax
  • Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

  • UK: November 16 1976
  • United States: July 08 1971

Plot

France, in the 1760s. Born to a bourgeois family, Suzanne (Anna Karina) is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Despite her faith, she is dismayed when her parents send her off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. Suzanne first resists the rules of the convent, but soon finds out that she is an illegitimate child, leaving her no other option than to pronounce her vows and suffer the consequences of her mother's sin. She soon wants to escape the religious path and is trying to revoke her vows when the Mother Superior, who had brought her comfort and solace, dies. Her successor, Sister Christine, turns out to be a sadistic and cruel Mother Superior, inflicting the worst forms of humiliation upon Suzanne, such as depriving her of food and clothing. Suzanne is finally transferred to another convent, where she discovers another kind of Mother Superior, who develops an inappropriate affectionate bond with her... Adapted from Diderot's eponymous novel, The Nun tells the story of a woman trying to resist imposed religious values, revealing the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.

Cast

Director:

Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette

Anna Karina

Anna Karina

Suzanne, the nun

Liselotte Pulver

Liselotte Pulver

Madame de Chelles

Micheline Presle

Micheline Presle

Madame de Moni

Photos

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Trivia

In 2013 another adaptation of Diderot's work was done, 'The Nun' directed by Guillaume Nicloux and Pauline Etienne and Isabelle Huppert.

'La Monja' is a film based on the play 'La Religieuse', written in 1760 by the famous French encyclopedist Diderot, one of the most important figures of the period of the Enlightenment.

In Spain [TIT] was released after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.

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