The Nun's Story.
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✎ Suggest a correctionStars Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch. Develops the drama of Sister Luke's notable struggle to sublimate her own strong personality to the strict demands of her calling. Portrays her difficult postulancy, her period of work and service and her decision to be released from her vows.
Gabrielle "Gaby" Van Der Mal (Audrey Hepburn) enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s in the hopes of eventually becoming a missionary nursing sister in the Belgian Congo. She is disappointed to learn that she will not be nursing the natives, but instead will be the operating nurse for the segregated whites/European patient hospital. She develops a strained but professional relationship with the brilliant atheistic surgeon there, Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch) Eventually, the strains of her work and spiritual struggle cause her to succumb to tuberculosis. Eventually, she is forced to return to Belgium as the only nurse
Gabrielle "Gaby" Van Der Mal (Audrey Hepburn) enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s in the hopes of eventually becoming a missionary nursing sister in the Belgian Congo. She is disappointed to learn that she will not be nursing the natives, but instead will be the operating nurse for the segregated whites/European patient hospital. She develops a strained but professional relationship with the brilliant atheistic surgeon there, Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch) Eventually, the strains of her work and spiritual struggle cause her to succumb to tuberculosis. Eventually, she is forced to return to Belgium as the only nurse
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Registered 23Feb76 · LP50894 (Jul-Dec 1977) Copyright holder: Paramount Pictures Corporation Production company: Paramount Television
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The Nun's Story. Warner Bros. Pictures. 149 Min., Sd., Technicolor, 35 Mm. From The Book By Kathryne C. Hulme. © Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 4jul59 (In Notice: 1958); Lp16817. , Stars Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch. Develops the drama of Sister Luke's notable struggle to sublimate her own strong personality to the strict demands of her calling. Portrays her difficult postulancy, her period of work and service and her decision to be released from her vows. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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