Mother Joan of the Angels
Matka Joanna od Aniołów
“ Maybe the trouble is not demons, but the absence of angels. ”
CINEMA1961-02-09
RegionPL
Runtime110 MIN
Media TypeMovie
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s haunting monochrome classic examining sexual repression, religious fanaticism, and mass possession.”
Storyline
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
DIRECTOR / Director
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
KEYWORDS
nunpossessiondevil
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s haunting monochrome classic examining sexual repression, religious fanaticism, and mass possession.
