The Nun's Story (1959)

Directors

Fred Zinnemann

Cast

Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger

The story

Gabrielle van der Mal, whose widowed father, Hubert, is a prominent surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s, hoping to serve in the Belgian Congo. After receiving the religious name of Sister Luke, she undergoes her postulancy and novitiate which foreshadow her future difficulties with the vow of obedience. She takes her first vows and is sent to the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp.

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