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The Nun and the Devil ()

Le monache di Sant'Arcangelo (original title)
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During the 1570s, in the convent of Sant'Arcangelo di Baiano, after the death of the mother superior, a power struggle rages on, as one nun, who comes from a powerful family, is willing to do anything to become the new abbess.
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Mother Giulia
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Alfonso Carafo
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Isabella
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Mother Chiara
Muriel Catalá ...
Agnes
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Mother Carmela (as Claudia Gravì)
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Mother Lavinia
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Don Carlos
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Cardinal d'Arezzo
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Pietro
Luigi Antonio Guerra ...
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Fernando (as Gian Luigi Chirizzi)
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Isabella's keeper (uncredited)

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Domenico Paolella ... (as Paolo Dominici)

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Domenico Paolella ... (story)
Domenico Paolella ... (screenplay) &
Tonino Cervi ... (screenplay)
 
Domenico Paolella ... (dialogue) &
Tonino Cervi ... (dialogue)
 
Stendhal ... (based on a story by)

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Tonino Cervi ... producer
Giovanni Di Clemente ... assistant producer
Agostino Pasti ... assistant producer

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Piero Piccioni

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Giuseppe Ruzzolini ... director of photography

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Nino Baragli

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Elvira Tonini ... assistant editor (as Vivi Tonini)
Enzo Tonini ... assistant editor

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Claudio Cinini

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Alfredo D'Angelo

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Wayne A. Finkelman ... (as Wayne Finkelman)

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Mario Di Salvio ... makeup artist
Paolo Franceschi ... hair stylist
Alfio Meniconi ... assistant makeup artist

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Anacleto Amadio ... production manager

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Tersicore Kolosoff ... assistant director (as Tersicore Kolosof)

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Giovanni Fratalocchi ... settings

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Giancarlo Laurenzi ... sound
Romano Pampaloni ... sound

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Marcello Mastrogirolamo ... assistant camera
Edmondo Pisani ... camera operator

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Osanna Guardini ... wardrobe

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Severino Gazzelloni ... musician: flute soloist
Bruno Nicolai ... music conductor
Libero Gaddi ... musician: oboe soloist, score (uncredited)

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Cesare Barbetti ... italian voice dubbing: Pier Paolo Capponi (uncredited)
Franca Dominici ... italian voice dubbing: Maria Cumani Quasimodo (uncredited)
Sergio Graziani ... italian voice dubbing: Luc Merenda (uncredited)
Pino Locchi ... italian voice dubbing: Duilio Del Prete (uncredited)
Rita Savagnone ... italian voice dubbing: Anne Heywood (uncredited)
Massimo Turci ... italian voice dubbing: Gianluigi Chirizzi (uncredited)
Serena Verdirosi ... italian voice dubbing: Ornella Muti (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

Kingdom of Naples, 1577: The Roman Inquisition and the witch hunt are in force and torture is authorized in the trials, while the people live in misery and fear. The handsome Spanish nobleman Don Carlos enjoyed it in the convent of Sant'Arcangelo di Baiano, satisfying his eroticism with Sister Giulia di Mondragone, a powerful ecclesiastic who aspired to the title of abbess of the convent. Having evaluated the power of Don Carlos, Giulia tries to please him, while other sisters, especially Sister Carmela, plot against her as interested in the coveted title of abbess. Giulia offers herself on several occasions to Don Carlos, despite being a lesbian and eager to be alone with her sweetheart: Sister Chiara. Giulia pleases Don Carlos even when he asks her to spend a night of love with the beautiful young Sister Isabella, Giulia's niece, forced against her will to take the monastic vows but, in reality, very much in love with a boy from the country 'origin. Considering that the current abbess, Sister Lavina, appears to be ever closer to death, Giulia and Carmela go wild in a war that will have to determine who, on Lavinia's death, will succeed her in her duties and functions. From pure actions moved by jealousy they pass to poisonings, traps, complaints and false accusations. If Sister Giulia favors Don Carlos, Sister Carmela, even through some protectors and lovers, she reveals a criminal conduct at least equal to that of Giulia. The step towards the scandal is short: deaths, threats and beatings accompanied by the sending of anonymous letters to the high ecclesiastical authorities, immediately open a trial. The vicar Carafa, representative of the Inquisition sent by the Archbishop of Naples, deals with the scandal: the ruthless process in which various sisters are tortured and made to confess.

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Taglines In the convent of St. Archangel, there is a struggle for lust & love. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Les religieuses du Saint Archange (France)
  • The Nun and the Devil (Canada, English title)
  • The Nun and the Devil (Ireland, English title)
  • The Nun and the Devil (United States)
  • The Nun and the Devil (United Kingdom)
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  • 103 min
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Trivia The opening credits state that the movie is 'Based on authentic 16th Century records and a story by STENDHAL'. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Real Blue Nuns (2006). See more »
Quotes Carafo: And the Lord pardon us for the pain we have inflicted in the church's name.
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