France, in the 1760s. Born into a bourgeois family, Suzanne (Pauline Etienne) is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Despite her faith, she is dismayed when her parents send her off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. Suzanne first resists the rules of the convent, but soon finds out that she is an illegitimate child, leaving her no other option than to pronounce her vows and suffer the consequences of her mother's sin.Adapted from Diderot's eponymous novel, The Nun tells the story of a woman trying to resist imposed religious values, revealing the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.

GENRE: Drama
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 1h 54m
RELEASE DATE: December 31, 1969
STARRING: Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin, Martina Gedeck, Agathe Bonitzer
DIRECTOR(S): Guillaume Nicloux
PRODUCER(S): Sylvie Pialat
WRITER(S): Denis Diderot, Guillaume Nicloux, Jérôme Beaujour
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