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In 1930 Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal, stubborn daughter of prominent surgeon Dr. Hubert van der Mal, decides to leave her upper-class family to enter a convent, expecting to work as nun in the Congo with tropical diseases. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie, her brother Pierre, and her beloved father and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silence and excessive humility and humiliation. After a long stint working in a mental institution, Gaby/Sister Luke is finally assigned to go to the Congo, where she works with cynical but brilliant atheist Dr. Fortunati. Sister Luke proves to be a very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr. Fortunati miraculously heals her tuberculosis. Years later she is ordered to return to Belgium, and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Sister Luke finally decides to leave the religious life since she is unable to feel neutral against the invaders of her country.
Gabrielle Van Der Mal gave up everything to become a nun. But her faith and her vows are forever being tested: first in the missionary Congo hospital where she assists the brilliant and handsome Dr. Fortunati, then at the motherhouse in France when World War II has broken out and the order forbids the nuns to take sides.
Audrey Hepburn
Sister Luke (Gabrielle van der Mal)
Peter Finch
Dr. Fortunati
Edith Evans
Rev. Mother Emmanuel (Belgium)
Peggy Ashcroft
Mother Mathilde (Africa)
Dean Jagger
Dr. van der Mal
Mildred Dunnock
Sister Margharita (Mistress of Postulants)
Beatrice Straight
Mother Christophe (Sanatorium)
Patricia Collinge
Sister William (Convent Teacher)
Rosalie Crutchley
Sister Eleanor
Ruth White
Mother Marcella (School of Medicine)
Barbara O'Neil
Mother Didyma (Wartime Hospital)
Margaret Phillips
Sister Pauline (Medical Student)
Patricia Bosworth
Simone (Postulant who changed her mind)
Colleen Dewhurst
Archangel Gabriel (Sanatorium)
Stephen Murray
Chaplain (Father Andre)
Lionel Jeffries
Dr. Goovaerts (School of Tropical Medicine)
Niall MacGinnis
Father Vermeuhlen (Leprosarium)
Eva Kotthaus
Sister Marie (Sanatorium)
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