The Nun (1966)

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Movie
German title The nun
Original title Suzanne Simonin, la religieuse de Diderot
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1966
length 140 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jacques Rivette
script Jacques Rivette,
Jean Gruault
production Georges de Beauregard
music Jean-Claude Eloy
camera Alain Levent
cut Denise de Casabianca
occupation

The Nun (Suzanne Simonin, la religieuse de Diderot) is a French feature film from 1966 by Jacques Rivette based on the novel The Nun by Denis Diderot . Anna Karina played the leading role alongside Liselotte Pulver and Micheline Presle .

action

Leading actress Anna Karina (1968)

Since Suzanne, the third daughter of her family, has no trousseau , she is brought to the convent . The young woman rebelled against the torture and arbitrariness that prevailed there and temporarily found a friend in the mild abbess Madame de Moni. But after her death, Suzanne is terrorized by her successor, Sainte-Christine. As a typical nun, as Diderot describes her in the novel, she is "of small character and with a narrow-minded head, ruled by superstition." She lets out her sadistic urges on Suzanne. This succeeds in being transferred to another monastery, where the abbess Madame de Chelles has a more secular leadership. The abbess takes on Suzanne and prefers her to the other nuns. Over time, the abbess's feelings grow stronger, but Suzanne does not reciprocate and fends off subsequent advances. The abbess is becoming more and more insane. Confessor Morel, who is in love with Suzanne, helps Suzanne escape to freedom. But outside of the monastery life is no less hard. Suzanne flees Morel after repelling a violent advances. The next day, farmers found her next to a field. She works for the farmers, but escapes when she sees two officers from the Maréchaussée who she believes are looking for her. Even a job as a laundress doesn't last long. Here she learns that Morel has ended up in prison. Suzanne eventually becomes a beggar and, in the end, a prostitute . With the words “God forgive me!” She rushes to her death from the window of a brothel .

Prohibition of the film

Rivette's film was banned right after its first screening in Cannes in May 1966. The information minister justified the ban as follows: “ The nun offends the feelings and the conscience of the Catholic population.” The film was not officially released until July 1967.

Reviews

“Film adaptation of a novella by Diderot. The closed room of the monastery appears as a prison-like experimental cage in which psychological impulses become visible with embarrassing accuracy. Rivette doubles the view of the control authorities with a camera that is always present and achieves a high level of atmospheric tension. The film is less about denouncing monastic life than about new forms of dramaturgical development and compression. "

- Lexicon of international film

“An artistically successful film based on a time-critical novel by the French enlightener Diderot. The problem of freedom of personal decision is no longer relevant in this connection. Instead, the question, whether monastic life makes sense at all, cannot be discussed on the basis of the historical material. For evangelical adults under such knowledge, the film is neither a nuisance nor a gain. "

- Protestant film observer

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for The Nun . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2014 (PDF; test number: 37 892 V).
  2. ↑ The nun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 20, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 462/1967