The Nun's Story

1959

Drama

22
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 85% · 20 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 12300 12.3K

nurse nun missionary world war ii congo belgium

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Plot summary

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Director

Fred Zinnemann Photo
Fred Zinnemann

Top cast

Audrey Hepburn Photo
Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke
Richard O'Sullivan Photo
Richard O'Sullivan as Pierre
Peggy Ashcroft Photo
Peggy Ashcroft as Mother Mathilde
Beatrice Straight Photo
Beatrice Straight as Mother Christophe
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gabrielcsl 9 / 10

A monk's perspective

Reviewed by AlsExGal 8 / 10

I'm not much of a viewer of films about religion...

... and yet I found this fascinating.Gabrielle van der Mal enters a convent in Belgium with the lukewarm approval of her surgeon dad. She is a trained nurse and has a heart for nursing, specifically in the Congo, which was a colony of Belgium's at the time. The film follows her through her first year and a half in the convent until she takes her final vows, the trials and tribulations she faces there, and her delay in finally being assigned to the Congo as a nurse.This is a great film that doubles as a good documentary on what is involved in becoming a nun, so much so that I'd say that Gabrielle really didn't so much want to be a nun as she figured this was the only path to getting to serve in the Congo as a nurse - a primitive place with a great need for medical professionals of all kinds.When Gabrielle finally does get to the Congo and has served as OR nurse to the agnostic Dr. Fortunati, she is panicked when the day comes that she is ordered to return to Belgium. Gabrielle isn't so much someone who sees herself as a rebel within the church - this is the tradition that she grew up in and she seems fine with it - as much as she sees everyday life in the convent as boring and tiresome, especially after several years of being a nurse in the Congo and being so very helpful.Neither does she have a huge problem with forgiveness. In Africa a native beats another nun to death for no other reason than a witch doctor told the man that if he killed a white woman that the ghost of his dead wife would stop haunting him. In spite of the pointlessness of the murder, in spite of the fact that she knew the murdered nun, Gabrielle has sympathy and forgiveness in her heart for the killer. But then she returns to Europe and the Nazis invade and quickly take over Belgium. When they kill her father while he is tending to some refugees, Gabrielle realizes her heart is not big enough to forgive such systemic cruelty. At that point she must make a choice.This film is based upon a novel written by Kathryn Hulme, the partner of Gabrielle van der Mal for over thirty years, until Hulme's death in 1981. Perhaps it was because the author was so close to Gabrielle that the main character is so well examined.
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