Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (Die Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne) (1977, West Germany/Swiss) is a Nunsploitation film directed by Jess Franco.
Main Details
- Released on March 10, 1977 (West Germany)
- Color
- Running time: 85 minutes (Spain); 80 minutes (USA); 89 minutes (director's cut)
- Production Co.: Ascot Film | Cinemec Zweite Produktions KG | Elite Film
- Distribution Co.: Avis Films
- Directed by Jess Franco
- Written by Mariana Alcoforado (love letters) | Erwin C. Dietrich (as Manfred Gregor) | Christine Lembach (dialogue)
- Starring: Susan Hemingway, William Berger, Herbert Fux
Plot Summary
- 16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women, and the horned Devil, and told that it's all a bad dream. She writes a letter to God, and a Knight rescues her, only to fall into the hands of the Inquisition, put on the rack, and condemned to death like Joan of Arc.
