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The Nun's Story

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The Nun's Story (1959)

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Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 13  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 31 mins
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A young nun dedicated to medical work in the African Congo and in World War II Belgium struggles to reconcile her independent spirit to the rigors and humility of a religious life. Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress--Audrey Hepburn, Best... [More]
A young nun dedicated to medical work in the African Congo and in World War II Belgium struggles to reconcile her independent spirit to the rigors and humility of a religious life. Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress--Audrey Hepburn, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. [Less]

Genre: Dramas

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

Director: Fred Zinnemann
Producer: Henry Blanke
Screenwriter: Robert Anderson
Composer: Franz Waxman

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 4, 2006

[DVD Details]
  • Nun's Story, The
  • Story 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.
  • Source: Warner Home Video
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    01/03/08 03:15 AM
    Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
    Spirituality and Practice
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    Fred Zinnemann's production is a soaring and luminous film.

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    11/01/07 06:00 PM
    Variety Staff
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    A superbly restrained piece of filmmaking, with Zinnemann directing in simple, unadorned style and Hepburn giving a truly radiant performance.

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    11/01/07 05:59 PM
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    Considered to be Zinnemann's masterpiece, this 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 very for her self-fulfillment

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    08/23/06 05:17 PM
    Emanuel Levy
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    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.

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    06/24/06 03:17 AM
    Tom Milne
    Time Out
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    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.

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    04/12/06 05:16 PM
    Steven D. Greydanus
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    Moving, controversial (for its time) religious tale starring Audrey Hepburn.

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    08/01/05 06:44 PM
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    07/28/05 10:14 AM
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    04/27/05 02:06 PM
    Lori Hoffman
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    03/27/04 07:22 AM
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    08/22/03 01:41 PM
    Carol Cling
    Las Vegas Review-Journal
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    Zinneman, an intelligent if dullish director, has avoided such obvious pitfalls in this adaptation of a factually based best-seller.

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    05/24/03 08:02 AM
    Channel 4 Film
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    In the role of the nun, Miss Hepburn is fluent and luminous.

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    05/20/03 05:02 PM
    Bosley Crowther
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    01/23/03 12:42 PM
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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    One of Audrey's finest dramatic moments

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    10/04/02 07:00 AM
    James Sanford
    Kalamazoo Gazette
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