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title: "The Nun's Story [DVD] [1959]"
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# The Nun's Story [DVD] [1959]

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## Description

The Nun's Story [DVD] [1959]

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Drama
- **Format:** PAL, Dolby, Colour, Full Screen, Mono
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- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 2 hours and 25 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THE NUN'S STORY from WARNER
*by A***N on 21 June 2017*

151 Reviews as at time of writing so mine won't exactly make much difference. Why did I buy this? It was on a whim. I was browsing and saw it and thought - Not seen this for a very long time. Buy it. I am so glad I did. My wife and I settled down last night (a sweltering evening) with a bottle of wine and off we went. The quality is good, a shame it's 4.3 ratio (correct, but it cried out I thought for a big screen), clear picture and sound, and Subtitles, a must for us. Viewing it in 2017 I can't help but wonder what my 16/17 year old self would have thought of this in 1959/60. Possibly not a lot even tho I was well into Cinema back then. It is 2 1/2 hours long but Fred Zinneman directs so well and Hepburn is so watchable (ably supported by Finch and Dean Jagger, and the entire cast) that the time almost flew by. The first 45 mins show the painstaking training the novitiates go through and somehow Zinneman makes it fascinating. A switch of mood to the Belgian Congo and Peter Finch, who plays to perfection the dedicated unbelieving doctor, and the experience of violence of a brutal kind. The third part of the film is set back in Belgium and takes us up to the second world war and the climax of the story. Beautifully filmed and directed I can't recomend to everyone, and those who have seen it in the cinema or on TV (not for some time) will know what to expect. If you don't know it but love a good (if old school) tale well told - Give it a go. (Do look out for Colleen Dewhurst as the "ArchAngel" in the Asylum section...Scary? I should say so!) (And finally...That last shot...remind you of anything?)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NUN'S STORY 1959
*by M***S on 31 October 2014*

The Nun's Story is the title of a 1956 novel by Kathryn Hulme. The book was a Book of the Month selection and reached #1 on the New York Times best-seller list.Hulme wrote the book based partly upon the experiences of her friend, Marie Louise Habets of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, a Belgian nurse and an ex-nun whom she met while working with refugees in post-war Europe. The author sponsored the former nun's immigration to the United States, and later converted to Catholicism.[1] It is often erroneously stated that the book was based upon Hulme's own experiences.The lead character of the book, Sister Luke (pre-convent name Gabrielle Van Der Mal), finds her faith tested in Africa where she finds herself at odds with headstrong Dr. Fortunati, operator of a remote Congo hospital, with whom she gradually builds respect, and again during World War II, when she is ordered not to take sides. Ultimately, Sister Luke is forced to decide whether to remain in the convent or return to the outside world.Gabrielle/Sister Luke is stretched between her desire to be faithful to the rule of her congregation and her desire to be a nurse. As a nun she must remove all vestiges of "Gabrielle Van Der Mal" and sublimate herself into the devoted bride of Christ. As a nun there is no room for her personal desires and aspirations. Ultimately, the conflict between her devotion to the Church and the nursing profession, juxtaposed with her passionate Belgian patriotism and her love of her father (killed by Nazi fighter planes while treating wounded) bring her to an impasse, which serves as the dénouement of the novel.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I H
*by A***D on 24 January 2024*

It’s a video, The Nuns Story enjoyed it.

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