Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
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Director Jesu?s Franco Music director Walter Baumgartner Country West GermanySwitzerland | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Adventure, Horror Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 10, 1977 (1977-03-10)West Germany (West Germany) Initial release March 10, 1977 (West Germany) Screenplay Erwin C. Dietrich, Christine Lembach Cast Susan Hemingway (Maria Rosalea), Ana Zanatti (Mother Alma, the Grand Priestess), (Father Vicente), (Satan), Vítor Mendes (António Fernando Queiroz de Melo), Anton Diffring (Old Priest)Similar movies Related Jesu?s Franco movies Tagline Seit 3 Jahrhunderten verboten und verfemt - zum ersten Mal verfilmt! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (German: Die Liebesbriefe einer portugesischen Nonne) is a 1977 West German-Swiss movie directed by Jesús Franco and produced by Erwin Dietrich, loosely based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun attributed to Mariana Alcoforado. It starred Susan Hemingway and William Berger. Franco co-wrote the screenplay with producer Dietrich.
It tells the story of Maria, a girl in Inquisition-era Portugal, whom a priest sees cavorting with a boy. He orders her to become a nun as penance. In the convent Maria gets subjected to all sorts of torture and humiliation at the hands of the priest and the mother superior.
The movie is part of a genre known as "nunsploitation".
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