Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
1977 film
- Erwin C. Dietrich
- Christine Lembach
- Jesús Franco[1]
- Erwin C. Dietrich
- Max Dora
- Susan Hemingway
- William Berger
- Herbert Fux
- Ana Zanatti
Production
companies
companies
- Ascot Film
- Cinemec Zweite Produktions KG
- Elite Film
Release dates
- March 10, 1977 (1977-03-10)
- West Germany (West Germany)
Running time
- West Germany
- Switzerland
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (German: Die Liebesbriefe einer portugesischen Nonne) is a 1977 West German-Swiss film 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
External links
- Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun at IMDb
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Films directed by Jesús Franco
- Queen of the Tabarin Club (1960)
- The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962)
- Attack of the Robots (1966)
- The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
- Espionage in Lisbon (1965)
- Lucky, the Inscrutable (1967)
- Kiss Me Monster (1967)
- Succubus (1968)
- Eve (1968)
- The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
- 99 Women (1969)
- The Girl from Rio (1969)
- The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
- Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
- Venus in Furs (1969)
- The Bloody Judge (1969)
- Count Dracula (1969)
- Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970)
- Vampyros Lesbos (1970)
- She Killed in Ecstasy (1970)
- The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
- A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1971)
- Eugénie de Sade (1973)
- The Bare Breasted Countess (1973)
- Lorna the Exorcist (1974)
- Barbed Wire Dolls (1975)
- Jack the Ripper (1976)
- Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977)
- Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
- Women in Cellblock 9 (1977)
- Devil Hunter (1980)
- Mondo Cannibale (1980)
- Bloody Moon (1981)
- Zombie Lake (1981)
- Sadomania (1981)
- Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)
- Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
- Faceless (1988)
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