Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
- Original title
- Die Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne
- Directed by
- Jesús Franco
- Genre
- drama film, horror film, nunsploitation, religious film, satanic film, lesbian-related film
- Country
- Germany, Switzerland
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 41 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In Inquisition-era Portugal, a young woman is forced into a convent as punishment for being seen with a boy. Inside the convent, she endures torture and humiliation from the priest and mother superior.
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What happens
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (German: Die Liebesbriefe einer portugesischen Nonne) is a 1977 West German-Swiss film 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, (German actress, born in 1960), 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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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