Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
	Film poster
Directed by	Jesús Franco
Written by	Mariana Alcoforado (novel)
Screenplay by	Erwin C. Dietrich; Christine Lembach; Jesús Franco;
Produced by	Erwin C. Dietrich; Max Dora;
Starring	Susan Hemingway; William Berger; Herbert Fux; Ana Zanatti;
Cinematography	Peter Baumgartner
Edited by	Marie-Luise Buschke (as Marie-Louise Buschke)
Music by	Walter Baumgartner
Production; companies	Ascot Film; Cinemec Zweite Produktions KG; Elite Film;
Distributed by	Avis Film
Release dates	March 10, 1977; West Germany;
Running time	89 minutes
Countries	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 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, (German actress, born in 1960), 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

^ Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press.
^ Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press.

External links

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun at IMDb

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[1] Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press.

[2] Thrower, Stephen (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press.

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Filmography Unrealized projects
Films directed	Queen of the Tabarin Club (1960) Vampiresas 1930 (1961) The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) The Sadistic Baron von Klaus (1963) Rififi in the City (1964) Death Whistles the Blues (1964) Dr. Orloff's Monster (1965) The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966) Attack of the Robots (1966) Lucky, the Inscrutable (1967) Succubus (1968) The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968) 99 Women (1969) The Girl from Rio (1969) Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) Two Undercover Angels (1969) Kiss Me Monster (1969) Venus in Furs (1969) Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970) The Bloody Judge (1970 Count Dracula (1970) The Castle of Fu Manchu (1970) The Devil Came from Akasava (1971) Vampyros Lesbos (1971) She Killed in Ecstasy (1971) Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972) La venganza del Doctor Mabuse (1972) A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) Lorna the Exorcist (1974) Female Vampire (1975) Barbed Wire Dolls (1976) Jack the Ripper (1976) Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977) Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977) Women in Cellblock 9 (1978) Devil Hunter (1980) Sadomania (1981) Bloody Moon (1981) Mondo Cannibale (1981) Oasis of the Zombies (1982) Mansion of the Living Dead (1983) Faceless (1988)
Collaborative works	Eve (1968)