Matka Joanna od Aniołow [videorecording] = Mother Joan of the angels / produced by the Polish Corporation for Film Production ; Film Polski ; screenplay, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Tadeusz Konwicki, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz ; directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
Originally released as motion picture in 1960. Special features: Director and cast biographies. Cast: Lucnya Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska, Maria Chwalibog.
Summary:
This allegory of good vs. evil, chastity vs. passion, is based on actual events which occurred at a convent in Loudun, France. In the movie the Mother Superior of a seventeenth century Polish convent comes to desire the priest investigating demonic possession among the nuns.
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