The Nun's Night

The Nun's Night (1967)

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A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the implementation of collectivized agriculture and the mass closure of monasteries and convents.

Date of release
1967-12-15
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama
Director
Karel Kachyňa

Casting

Interesting facts

The Nun's Night is a 1967 Czechoslovak film directed by Karel Kachyňa adapted from a novel by Jan Procházka. Set in a Moravian village in the early 1950s, a time of collectivisation as well as mass closures of monasteries and convents by the Stalinist regime, the film is an evocative critique of religious fanaticism and political ideology.

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