La storia di una monaca

Titolo originale: The Nun's Story

1959
T
2h 29min

VALUTAZIONE IMDb

7,5/10

12.070

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

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Dopo aver lasciato una ricca famiglia belga per diventare suora, suor Luke, lotta con la sua devozione ai suoi voti durante la crisi, la delusione e la seconda guerra mondiale.Dopo aver lasciato una ricca famiglia belga per diventare suora, suor Luke, lotta con la sua devozione ai suoi voti durante la crisi, la delusione e la seconda guerra mondiale.Dopo aver lasciato una ricca famiglia belga per diventare suora, suor Luke, lotta con la sua devozione ai suoi voti durante la crisi, la delusione e la seconda guerra mondiale.

Regia
- Fred Zinnemann
Sceneggiatura
- Robert Anderson
- Kathryn Hulme
Star

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

7,5/10

12.070

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

Regia
- Fred Zinnemann
Sceneggiatura
- Robert Anderson
- Kathryn Hulme
Star

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Candidato a 8 Oscar
- 11 vittorie e 23 candidature totali

Quiz
This was one of Audrey Hepburn's favorite of her films. It was also one of her most financially successful.

Blooper
When the patient in the Congo hospital is being attended by several people, the voice of the actor playing the patient is obviously dubbed over by actor Dean Jagger, who plays Sister Luke's father in the film.

Citazioni
Sister Luke: You can cheat your sisters, but you cannot cheat yourself or God.
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Have you struggled long enough to say surely that you've come to the end?
Sister Luke: I think I've been struggling all these years, Reverend Mother. In the beginning each struggle seemed different from the one before it. But then they began to repeat, and I saw they all had the same core: obedience. Without question, without inner murmuring. Perfect obedience as Christ practiced it. As I no longer can.
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Yes?
Sister Luke: There are times when my conscience asks which has priority. It or the Holy Rule? When the bell calls me to chapel, I often have to sacrifice what might be the decisive moment in a spiritual talk with a patient. I'm late every day for chapel or refectory or both. When I have night duty I break the Grand Silence because I can no longer cut short a talk with a patient who seems to need me. Mother, why must God's helpers be struck dumb by five bells in the very hours when men in trouble want to talk about their souls?

Connessioni
Featured in Hey Dad..!: Testing Time (1990)

Colonne sonore
Voi Che Sapete
from "The Marriage of Figaro"
Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as W. A. Mozart)
Played by Gabi and her father on the piano, and recurring throughout the film's score.

Recensioni degli utenti115

Recensione in evidenza

9/10

A Very High-Quality Film

I was amazed how a long, fairly slow film like this could capture and keep my attention all the way through.....but it did. This is really a quality film, as those who have seen it for years, will attest. It's so well done, in all phases, that when the two-and-a-half hours are up, you just marvel and what you've witnessed.

Anyone who has tried to live a perfect life, to please God and never offend Him with sins of any nature, knows it is impossible. It is a noble pursuit, but an exercise in futility that can lead to utter frustration. That is the dilemma we witness here in this film through the life of a well-meaning and sweet-as-can-be Belgian lady: "Gabrielle van der Mal" who is renamed "Sister Luke" after completing her training as a nun in the 1930s. Audrey Hepburn is superb as this woman, who has the greatest of spiritual intentions and a heart not only for God but to be a great nurse and follow in her father's footsteps, a famous physician in his country.

Can't she be both? The answer, of course, is "yes," but that's not the answer she receives periodically at the convent, or interprets because she's so tough on herself, and it causes great inner conflict.

Hepburn doesn't have tons of dialog in here and doesn't require it. The different looks on her face during this long story, especially when there is disappointment, are priceless. They are so subtle, but so telling. I am one who would vote for this film as Audrey's best performance, which is saying a lot.