Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)

Original title

Le Dialogue des Carmélites

Directed by

Raymond Léopold Bruckberger, Philippe Agostini

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the French Revolution, a group of Carmelite nuns faces persecution for refusing to give up their faith. The film follows their quiet resistance and the growing threat of execution as the Reign of Terror closes in on them.

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What happens

Dialogue with the Carmelites (French: Le dialogue des Carmélites, Italian: I dialoghi delle Carmelitane, also known as The Carmelites) is a 1960 French-Italian historical drama film written and directed by Raymond Léopold Bruckberger and Philippe Agostini and starring Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Madeleine Renaud, Pascale Audret, Pierre Brasseur and Jean-Louis Barrault. It is based upon the play by Georges Bernanos, which in turn was adapted from the novella The Song at the Scaffold by Gertrud von Le Fort. It's the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who were guillotined in Paris in 1794 in the waning days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, after refusing to renounce their vocation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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