Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

02/09/1961Drama, Horror1h 46m
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Maybe the trouble is not demons, but the absence of angels.

Overview

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

Top Billed Cast

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    Lucyna Winnicka

    Mother Joan of the Angels

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    Mieczysław Voit

    Father Józef Suryn / Rabbi

  3. Cast 1

    Anna Ciepielewska

    Sister Małgorzata

  4. Cast 1

    Maria Chwalibóg

    Antosia

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    Kazimierz Fabisiak

    Father Brym

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    Stanisław Jasiukiewicz

    Chrząszczewski

  7. Cast 1

    Zygmunt Zintel

    Wincenty Wołodkowicz

  8. Cast 1

    Jerzy Kaczmarek

    Kaziuk

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    Franciszek Pieczka

    Odryn

Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz and inspired by the (presumably) real case of the "Loudun Possessions", the story of "Mother Joan of the Angels" is set on the seventeenth century, in a small village in Poland. There, a priest known as Jozef Suryn (Mieczyslaw Voit ) is sent to a convent, to help a group of nuns, who have been suffering from demonic possessions, especially Mother Joan (Lucyna Winnicka). As soon as Jozef meets Mother Joan, she threatens him with her diabolic voice and tells him that it won't be easy to cast the demons away and that she's not afraid of him. From that moment on, Fat...

Status Released

Original LanguagePolish 

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