A nun walks out of the convent and into history's wrecking ball. Faith meets fire.
A TV movie version of István Örkény's short novel. The fate of Sister Glória, or Ilona Tarr, who has lived in a convent since her childhood, in the historical situation after 1948, when the nuns' orders were dissolved in our country. The film presents the reality of this extraordinary fate with lyrical beauty. At the age of 26, Gloria is taken out of the closed and safe world of the convent - both spiritual and everyday - and into a changing reality with shifting values. In the course of conflicts, while maintaining her individuality and integrity, she finally finds her place among everyday people.
Acting
Kati Zsurzs carries silence like scripture
Direction
Éva Zsurzs turns political trauma into visual poetry
Writing
Örkény's dialogue: every word earned, nothing wasted
Director
Éva Zsurzs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hungary's 1950 dissolution of religious orders forcibly 'secularized' 10,000+ nuns — this film is practically documentary.
Director Éva Zsurzs cast her own daughter Kati as Glória — the tension between maternal gaze and institutional violence is not accidental.
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