The Nun's Night (1967)

Original title

Noc nevěsty

Directed by

Karel Kachyňa

Genre

drama film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a Moravian village during the early 1950s, a young nun struggles with her faith as the communist government shuts down convents and forces collectivization. The film follows her personal conflict between religious devotion and the demands of the Stalinist regime.

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What happens

The Nun's Night (Czech: Noc nevěsty) is a 1967 Czechoslovak film directed by Karel Kachyňa adapted from a novel by Jan Procházka. Set in a Moravian village in the early 1950s, a time of collectivisation as well as mass closures of monasteries and convents by the Stalinist regime, the film is an evocative critique of religious fanaticism and political ideology. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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