Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.
- adultery
- rape
- nun
- sadism
- revenge
- perversion
- torture
- lust
- video nasty
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Anita Ekberg
Sister Gertrude
Joe Dallesandro
Dr. Patrick Roland
Alida Valli
Mother Superior
Massimo Serato
Dr. Poirret
- Daniele Dublino — Director
- Paola Morra — Sister Mathieu
- Lou Castel — Peter
- Laura Nucci — Baroness
- Alice Gherardi — Nurse
- Lee De Barriault
- Ileana Fraia — Florence
- Antonietta Patriarca
- Sofia Lusy — Janet
- Nerina Montagnani — Josephine
- Franco Caracciolo — Priest in Confessional
- Directed
- Giulio Berruti
- Written
- Alberto Tarallo, Giulio Berruti
Production
- Rating
- 4.8 / 10 · 85 ratings
- Studio
- CineSud
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
