The Nun's Story (1959)
The Nun's Story is a 1959 Warner Brothers film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans and Peggy Ashcroft. Based upon the 1956 novel of the same title by Kathryn Hulme, the story tells of the life of Sister Luke (Hepburn), a young Belgian woman who decides to enter a convent and make the many sacrifices required by her choice. However, at the outset of World War II, she finds that she cannot remain neutral in the face of the abject evil of Hitler's Germany.
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Cast:
- Dorothy Alison
- Peggy Ashcroft
- Patricia Bosworth
- Patricia Collinge
- Rosalie Crutchley
- Colleen Dewhurst
- Mildred Dunnock
- Edith Evans
- Peter Finch
- Audrey Hepburn
- Dean Jagger
- Lionel Jeffries
- Errol John
- Eva Kotthaus
- Niall MacGinnis
- Stephen Murray
- Barbara O'Neil
- Margaret Phillips
- Jeanette Sterke
- Beatrice Straight
- Molly Urquhart
- Ruth White