Trailer for The Nun's Story
The year is 1930 and Gabrielle van der Mal (Audrey Hepburn - Funny Face), the daughter of respect Belgium surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal (Dean Jagger) leaves behind her upper-class life to enter the convent with a desire to end up as a nurse in the Congo. But Gabrielle soon finds following the disciplined lifestyle of a nun, obeying silence and attending service a testing experience as she struggles with humbleness and humility. Still holding on to her desire to work with the natives in the Congo Gabrielle, now known as Sister Luke, has to deal with disappointment as her superiors see that she is not ready to deal with the natives and even when eventually sent to the Congo she finds herself working in the European hospital alongside the cynical non believer Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch). Constantly tested as her desire to help conflicts with the strict discipline things come to ahead when she is forced to return to the convent in Belgium as war breaks out. ... Read Review
