Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Directed by Jesús Franco
Produced by Erwin C. Dietrich
Max Dora
Written by Mariana Alcoforado
Erwin C. Dietrich
Christine Lembach
Starring Susan Hemingway
William Berger
Herbert Fux
Ana Zanatti
Music by Walter Baumgartner
Cinematography Peter Baumgartner
Edited by Marie-Luise Buschke (as Marie-Louise Buschke)
Production
company
  • Ascot Film
  • Cinemec Zweite Produktions KG
  • Elite Film
Distributed by Avis Film
Release dates
  • March 10, 1977 (1977-03-10)
  • West Germany (West Germany)
Running time
89 minutes
Country 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 movie directed by Jesús Franco and loosely based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun attributed to Mariana Alcoforado. 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".

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