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The Nun

19677.1 / 10140 min

Drama

Overview

The banned film by Jacques Rivette

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

Cast

Anna Karina

Suzanne

Liselotte Pulver

Mme de Chelles

Micheline Presle

Mme de Moni

Francine Bergé

Soeur Sainte-Christine

Francisco Rabal

Dom Morel

Christiane Lénier

Mme Simonin

Yori Bertin

Soeur Saint-Thérèse

Hubert Buthion

L'Archevêque

Françoise Godde

La Domestique

Charles Millot

Monsieur Simonin

Marc Eyraud

La Père Séraphin

Gilette Barbier

Soeur Saint-Jean

Catherine Diamant

Soeur Sainte-Ursule

Annik Morice

Soeur Saint-Jérôme

Michel Delahaye

Un Vicaire

Jean Martin

Monsieur Hébert

Pierre Meyrand

Monsieur Manouri

Wolfgang Reichmann

Le Père Lemoine

Danielle Palmero

Soeur Saint-Clément

Crew

Jacques Rivette

Director

Denis Diderot

Novel

Jean Gruault

Writer

Jacques Rivette

Writer

Denise de Casabianca

Editor

Alain Levent

Director of Photography

Jean-Claude Eloy

Original Music Composer

Jacky Reynal

Makeup Artist

Philippe Fourastié

First Assistant Director

Gitt Magrini

Costume Design

Roger Scipion

Production Manager

François Geiller

Assistant Editor

Guy Villette

Sound

Michel Fano

Sound Designer

Georges de Beauregard

Producer

Alexis Poliakoff

Second Assistant Director

Urbain Loiseau

Sound

Roger Robert

Key Grip

Jean-Pierre Drouet

Musician

Lydie Mahias

Script Supervisor

Roger Ferret

Associate Producer

Cristóbal Criado

Hairstylist

Pierre Fabre

Second Assistant Director

Jeanine Herrly

Costumer

Jean-Jacques Fabre

Production Design

Boris Vinogradov

Conductor

Pierre Zucca

Still Photographer

Anne Dubot

Assistant Editor

Claude Bakka

Second Assistant Director

Colette Roy

Production Secretary

Guy Littaye

Production Design

Roger Delattre

Gaffer