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Movie profile

The Nun

The banned film by Jacques Rivette

7.1/ 1019672h 20m

Drama

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

Directed by Jacques Rivette

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Behind the frames

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Anna Karina

Anna Karina

Suzanne

Liselotte Pulver

Liselotte Pulver

Mme de Chelles

Micheline Presle

Micheline Presle

Mme de Moni

Francine Bergé

Francine Bergé

Soeur Sainte-Christine

Francisco Rabal

Francisco Rabal

Dom Morel

Christiane Lénier

Christiane Lénier

Mme Simonin

Yori Bertin

Yori Bertin

Soeur Saint-Thérèse

Hubert Buthion

L'Archevêque