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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0012569739864 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 04, 2006 Running Time: 149 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: July 18, 1959 Sales Rank: 6570 MPN: WARD73986D
Description: Story of Gabrielle Van Der Mal, who gives up everything to become a nun, facing incredible odds in the Congo and then at the mother house in France at the outbreak of World War II.
Amazon.com essential video: Fred Zinnemann's epic drama is a splendid showcase for Audrey Hepburn, who stars as the young nun Sister Luke, who is deeply spiritual yet conflicted about whether or not she can conform to convent life. Though the film is a mesmerizing--and quite leisurely--two and a half hours, its plot is fairly simple--young Gabrielle (Hepburn) enters the convent pledging her life to God, learns the disciplines associated with the life, receives her dream assignment of going to the Congo as a missionary nurse, and once there, is forced to face whether she is meant for the rigorous life of poverty, chastity, and most difficult of all, obedience. The film does a marvelous job of portraying the challenges of cloistered life without being either off-putting or overly romantic. And Hepburn, sometimes with only her eyes, communicates all the drive, faith, and conflict of a young woman so torn. --Anne Hurley
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Rating: - The Nun's Story
This was one of Audrey's finest performance. She was moving, believable and heart touching. She is the finest actress to ever hit the big screen.
Rating: - Very Good
I found this movie to be very good esp. for being made in the 50's.
If you like movies on a person's life this is one to watch. I only hope you are not disappointed as I was not to fine out what ... Read More
Rating: - The Nun's Story
This is one of my all-time favorite movies of Audrey Hepburn. I have the VHS and wore it out. I was very glad to see it released on DVD. So many of my favorite classic movies are not released on DVD. ... Read More
Rating: - Obedience to rules and regulations
This old film is well done and offers an interesting look inside the walls of a Roman Catholic cloister in Belgium, and then at the missionary field of Africa. But it also provides the same message as the ... Read More
Rating: - One of Audrey's Best
The only reason I didn't give this movie five stars is because the beginning of it DRAGS so badly. Be patient, it gets much better, and the choice of Audrey Hepburn, with her expressive eyes, was perfect. ... Read More
- The Nun's Story
- One of Audrey's Best