This Movie is truly special and unique. It covers a true life story of a Nun who in fact entered the convent and was sent to the missions in the Belgian Congo . However this movie, depicts the period before world war 2 and then during. Its about the struggle of a vocation between the cloistered ... Read review
The Nun's Story is an unforgettable revelation of the seldom-seen world behind convent ... more
walls. A radiant Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a much-desired position as a surgical nurse in the B...
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 2000 - Drama - Director: Giuseppe Tornatore - Original Language: Italian - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
...Nun who in fact entered the convent and was sent to the missions in the Belgian Congo . However this movie, depicts the period before world war 2 and then during. Its about the struggle of a vocation between the cloistered life and the world. It shows you how hard the life of a Nun within convent walls was and still is for many people and orders.
Its main focus is the training of the these women in order to be "good and holy Nuns" ... ...shows the feelings of those at the time of world war 2 about the Catholic Church's position in such difficult times
But its just one of those true classics with the right ending and i cannot fault it at all, Its a beautiful masterpiece and would recommend it to all faiths and people! ... more
This Movie is truly special and unique. It covers a true life story of a Nun who in fact entered the convent and was sent to the missions in the Belgian Congo . However this movie, depicts the period before world war 2 and then during. Its about the struggle of a vocation between the cloistered life and the world. It shows you how hard the life of a Nun within convent walls was and still is for many people and orders. Its main focus is the training of the these women in order to be "good and holy Nuns" especially in the world and finally the congo. It also shows the feelings of those at the time of world war 2 about the Catholic Church's position in such difficult times But its just one of those true classics with the right ending and i cannot fault it at all, Its a beautiful masterpiece and would recommend it to all faiths and people!
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This is a wonderful movie with the beautiful Audrey Hepburn as a young woman, the daughter of an eminant doctor, who becomes a nun and a nurse. She struggles to fulfil her own ideal of what a nun should be and finds it difficult to put her life as a nun before her life as a nurse. She travels to the congo to nurse, and becomes highly respected by the locals and whites alike. There is a violent death in this part which may not be suitable for young viewers. She explains to a non-christian that christians forgive, after the murder of a nun, but finds she can not do it after the murder of her father by the Nazis, and her faith is tested to the limit. ...
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