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Joan of the Angels

Joan of the Angels

Original title
Matka Joanna od Aniolów
Year
1961
Gender
Drama
Director
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Country
Poland
Details
105 minutes / black & white / sound

Set in the 17th century. A convent in a small town is being visited by high-ranking Catholic official trying to exorcise the nun supposedly possessed by demons. A local priest have been burnt for creating this condition by sexual temptation of the nuns, especially the Mother superior who bring on the collective hysteria of the group. There is another young priest who is to help with the exorcism. His first meeting with the convent head, Mother Joan of the Angels, has her seemingly possessed by Satan - she yells blasphemies and incites the priest. She begs the priest to save her and to help her to be a saint.

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