The Nun's Story

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Audrey Hepburn

Peter Finch

Edith Evans

Peggy Ashcroft

Dean Jagger

Mildred Dunnock

Beatrice Straight

Patricia Collinge

Rosalie Crutchley

Ruth White

Colleen Dewhurst

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BBC Two - The Nun's Story

Audrey Hepburn stars as a nun struggling between her conscience and her faith.

Gabrielle van der Mal enters a convent as a nursing postulant, but she is frequently at odds with her superiors as she can't help putting care for the patients above her obedience to the order. 

Audrey Hepburn starts as a nun who wants to be perfect, but is inhibited by her pride. Gabrielle van der Malenters enters a nunnery as a nursing postulant, but is frequently at odds with her superiors as she can't help putting care for the patients above her obedience to the order. Her greatest wish is to work in a hospital in the Congo.

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