The Nun's Story (1959) |
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| Director(s) | Fred Zinnemann |
| Producer(s) | Fred Zinnemann (uncredited), Henry Blanke |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Priests, Ministers, Clergy, Nuns, World War II |
Featured Cast of The Nun's Story See More »
Audrey Hepburn(as Sister Luke)
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
Audrey Hepburn
(as Sister Luke)
Peter Finch(as Dr. Fortunati)
The Nun's Story
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1959
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
Peter Finch
(as Dr. Fortunati)
Edith Evans(as Rev. Mother Emmanuel)
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
Edith Evans
(as Rev. Mother Emmanuel)
Peggy Ashcroft(as Mother Mathilde)
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
Peggy Ashcroft
(as Mother Mathilde)
Dean Jagger(as Dr. Van Der Mal)
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
Dean Jagger
(as Dr. Van Der Mal)
Mildred Dunnock(as Sister Margharita)
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
Mildred Dunnock
(as Sister Margharita)
Patricia Collinge(as Sister William)
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
Patricia Collinge
(as Sister William)
Rosalie Crutchley(as Sister Eleanor)
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
The Nun's Story
Released
1959
Rosalie Crutchley
(as Sister Eleanor)
The Nun's Story Overview:
The Nun's Story (1959) was a Drama - Film Adaptation Film directed by Fred Zinnemann and produced by Fred Zinnemann and Henry Blanke.
Academy Awards 1959 --- Ceremony Number 32 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actress | Audrey Hepburn | Nominated |
| Best Cinematography | Franz Planer | Nominated |
| Best Director | Fred Zinnemann | Nominated |
| Best Film Editing | Walter Thompson | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Franz Waxman | Nominated |
| Best Picture | Henry Blanke, Producer | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Robert Anderson | Nominated |
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The Nun's Story Quotes:
[kneeling in prayer after offering to help the Belgian Underground]
Sister Luke: Dear Lord, forgive me, I cannot obey anymore. What I do from now on is between You and me alone.
Sister Luke: Dear Lord, forgive me, I cannot obey anymore. What I do from now on is between You and me alone.
Sister Luke:
You can cheat your sisters, but you cannot cheat yourself or God.
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Have you struggled long enough to say surely that you've come to the end?
Sister Luke: I think I've been struggling all these years, Reverend Mother. In the beginning each struggle seemed different from the one before it. But then they began to repeat, and I saw they all had the same core: obedience. Without question, without inner murmuring. Perfect obedience as Christ practiced it. As I no longer can.
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Yes?
Sister Luke: There are times when my conscience asks which has priority. It or the Holy Rule? When the bell calls me to chapel, I often have to sacrifice what might be the decisive moment in a spiritual talk with a patient. I'm late every day for chapel or refectory or both. When I have night duty I break the Grand Silence because I can no longer cut short a talk with a patient who seems to need me. Mother, why must God's helpers be struck dumb by five bells in the very hours when men in trouble want to talk about their souls?
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Have you struggled long enough to say surely that you've come to the end?
Sister Luke: I think I've been struggling all these years, Reverend Mother. In the beginning each struggle seemed different from the one before it. But then they began to repeat, and I saw they all had the same core: obedience. Without question, without inner murmuring. Perfect obedience as Christ practiced it. As I no longer can.
Rev. Mother Emmanuel: Yes?
Sister Luke: There are times when my conscience asks which has priority. It or the Holy Rule? When the bell calls me to chapel, I often have to sacrifice what might be the decisive moment in a spiritual talk with a patient. I'm late every day for chapel or refectory or both. When I have night duty I break the Grand Silence because I can no longer cut short a talk with a patient who seems to need me. Mother, why must God's helpers be struck dumb by five bells in the very hours when men in trouble want to talk about their souls?
Rev. Mother Emmanuel:
Do good, then disappear.
[after a nun has been beaten to death by a crazed native]
Illunga: If such a death happened with us, Mama Luke, we would tie the murderer to a pole and cut his body for fish bait.
Sister Luke: But we would not. We have been taught to forgive.
See More Quotes from The Nun's StoryIllunga: If such a death happened with us, Mama Luke, we would tie the murderer to a pole and cut his body for fish bait.
Sister Luke: But we would not. We have been taught to forgive.
The Nun's Story Facts
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The role of Sister Luke was suggested for Ingrid Bergman but Bergman herself said she was too old for the role and instead proposed Audrey Hepburn.
A real priest was cast as Father Andre the chaplain but his acting left much to be desired so Stephen Murray was cast at short notice.
The film was shot on location in Rome, Bruges, Stanleyville and a real leper colony in the Congo.
The opening credits play out over street scenes of Bruges (or Brugge in Dutch), at over 1,500 years old (though did not receive its city charter until 1128), one of the oldest cities in Belgium, and at one time, the most important commercial city in the world.
After acquiring the rights to Kathryn Hulme's bestselling novel, Fred Zinnemann found that no one in Hollywood had any enthusiasm towards turning it into a film, citing it as being devoid of action. All that changed when Audrey Hepburn expressed a desire to take the lead role. Suddenly, a bidding war ensued which was won by Warner Brothers and netted them not only one of the most acclaimed films of the year but also their biggest financial hit for 1959.