Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Directed by Jesús Franco
Produced by Erwin C. Dietrich
Max Dora
Written by Mariana Alcoforado (novel)
Screenplay by Erwin C. Dietrich
Christine Lembach
Jesus Franco[1]
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
  • Ascot Film
  • Cinemec Zweite Produktions KG
  • Elite Film
Distributed by Avis Film
Release date
  • March 10, 1977 (1977-03-10)
  • West Germany (West Germany)
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 Jesús Franco and produced by Erwin Dietrich, loosely based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun attributed to Mariana Alcoforado. It starred Susan Hemingway and William Berger. Franco co-wrote the screenplay with producer Dietrich.[2]

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

References

  1. ↑ Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco. Strange Attractor Press.
  2. ↑ Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco. Strange Attractor Press.


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