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Title The nun's story / Warner Bros. Pictures ; produced by Henry Blanke ; screenplay by Robert Anderson ; directed by Fred Zinnemann.

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2005.
1958.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  DVD NUN'S STORY    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  DVD NUN'S    On Holdshelf
 Simsbury Public Library - DVDs  DVD NUN'S    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD NUNS    Check Shelf
Edition Widescreen version.
Description 1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Series Films of faith collection
Films of faith collection.
System Details DVD.
Cast Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock, Beatrice Straight, Patricia Collinge, Rosalie Crutchley, Ruth White, Barbara O'Neil, Margaret Phillips, Patricia Bosworth, Colleen Dewhurst, Stephen Murray, Lionel Jeffries, Niall MacGinnis, Eva Kotthaus, Molly Urquhart, Dorothy Alison, Jeannette Sterke, Errol John, Diana Lambert, Orlando Martins.
Credits Director of photography, Franz Planer ; editor, Walter Thompson ; music, Franz Waxman.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958.
From the book by Kathryn C. Hulme.
"Presented in a 'matted' widescreen format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for widescreen TVs"--Container.
Recorded in Dolby digital mono.
"Dual layer format"--Container.
Series from box.
Audience MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Note Special feature: Theatrical trailer.
Awards Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Hepburn), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Color Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Score, and Best Sound; New York Film Critics Awards for Best Actress (Hepburn) and Best Director; National Board of Review Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress (Evans).
Language English or French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Nuns -- Belgium -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Belgium -- Drama.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Drama.
Nuns -- Drama.
Feature films.
Religious films.
War films.
Added Author Zinnemann, Fred, 1907-1997.
Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993.
Finch, Peter, 1916-1977.
Evans, Edith, 1888-1976.
Ashcroft, Peggy, 1907-1991.
Jagger, Dean, 1903-1991.
Dunnock, Mildred.
Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967.
Hulme, Kathryn, 1900-1981.
Blanke, Henry, 1901-1981.
Anderson, Robert, 1917-2009.
Straight, Beatrice.
Collinge, Patricia, 1894-1974.
Crutchley, Rosalie, 1921-1997.
White, Ruth, 1914-1969.
O'Neil, Barbara, 1910-1980.
Phillips, Margaret, 1923-1984.
Dewhurst, Colleen.
Murray, Stephen, 1912-1983.
Jeffries, Lionel.
MacGinnis, Niall, 1913-1977.
Kotthaus, Eva.
Urquhart, Molly, 1906-1977.
Alison, Dorothy, 1925-1992
John, Errol, 1924-1988.
Martins, Orlando, 1899-1985.
Planer, Franz E., 1894-1963.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
ISBN 1419818627
1419824678 set
Standard No. 012569739864
Music No. 73986 Warner Home Video
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