The Nun's Night
1967 film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nun's Night (Czech: Noc nevěsty) is a 1967 Czechoslovak film directed by Karel Kachyňa adapted from a novel by Jan Procházka. Set in a Moravian village in the early 1950s, a time of collectivisation as well as mass closures of monasteries and convents by the Stalinist regime, the film is an evocative critique of religious fanaticism and political ideology.[1]
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Directed by | Karel Kachyňa |
Written by | Karel Kachyňa Jan Procházka |
Starring | Jana Brejchová Mnislav Hofmann Gustáv Valach |
Cinematography | Josef Illík |
Edited by | Miroslav Hájek |
Music by | Jan Novák |
Production company | Filmové studio Barrandov |
Distributed by | Ústřední půjčovna filmů |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
Language | Czech |
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