Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
| Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun | |
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| Directed by | Jesús Franco |
| Produced by |
Erwin C. Dietrich Max Dora |
| Written by |
Mariana Alcoforado Erwin C. Dietrich Christine Lembach |
| Starring |
Susan Hemingway William Berger Herbert Fux Ana Zanatti |
| Music by | Walter Baumgartner |
| Cinematography | Peter Baumgartner |
| Edited by | Marie-Luise Buschke (as Marie-Louise Buschke) |
Production company |
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| Distributed by | Avis Film |
Release dates |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country |
West Germany Switzerland |
| Language | German |
| Box office | ESP 36,890,043 (Spain) |
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (German: Die Liebesbriefe einer portugesischen Nonne) is a 1977 West German-Swiss movie directed by Jess Franco. 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".
Cast
Susan Hemingway: Maria Rosalea
William Berger: Father Vicente
Herbert Fux: Satan
Ana Zanatti: Mother Alma, the grand priestess
Aida Vargas: Juana, a nun (as Aida Kargas)
Vítor Mendes: António Fernando Queiroz de Melo, the mayor
Aida Gouveia: Antónia, a nun (as Isa Schneider)
Herman José: Manuel Gonçalves, the prince (as Hermann Krippahl)
José Viana: The Grand Inquisitor (as Jose Viana)
Patricia Da Silva: Maria's mother
Victor de Sousa: Inquisitor's aid
Nicolau Breyner: Prince's aid
Clara Marabuto: Josefina, a nun
Esther Studer: nun at the ritual
Dagmar Bürger: nun at the ritual