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The Nun's Story

Warner Bros. (1959)

7.5

12,633

Drama

USA | English | Color | 02:31

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This is a story of a nun who has to overcome a lot of obstacles. Her dad has hard times understanding her. She is a great student in the science of tropical medicine. At last, when she is assigned there, she comes to discover that she is working in the European instead of the native hospital. There she meets Dr. Fortunati who helps her with tuberculosis. When she returns back home, she has trouble accepting the neutrality of her order as the Second World War rages and chooses to leave

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	Audrey Hepburn	Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal)
	Peter Finch	Dr. Fortunati
	Edith Evans	Rev. Mother Emmanuel (Belgium)
	Peggy Ashcroft	Mother Mathilde (Africa)
	Dean Jagger	Dr. van der Mal
	Mildred Dunnock	Sister Margharita (Mistress of Postulants)
	Beatrice Straight	Mother Christophe (Sanatorium)
	Patricia Collinge	Sister William (Convent Teacher)
	Rosalie Crutchley	Sister Eleanor
	Ruth White	Mother Marcella (School of Medicine)
	Barbara O'Neil	Mother Didyma (Wartime Hospital)
	Margaret Phillips	Sister Pauline (Medical Student)
	Patricia Bosworth	Simone (Postulant who changed her mind)
	Colleen Dewhurst	Archangel Gabriel (Sanatorium)
	Stephen Murray	Chaplain (Father Andre)
	Lionel Jeffries	Dr. Goovaerts (School of Tropical Medicine)
	Niall MacGinnis	Father Vermeuhlen (Leprosarium)
	Eva Kotthaus	Sister Marie (Sanatorium)
	Molly Urquhart	Sister Augustine (Africa)
	Dorothy Alison	Sister Aurelie (Martyred Nurse / Africa)
	Jeanette Sterke	Louise (Gabrielle's Sister)
	Errol John	Illunga (African Convert)
	Diana Lambert	Lisa (the Resistance)
	Orlando Martins	Kalulu (African Servant)
	Elsa Albani