The Nun's Story is a 1959 Warner Brothers movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch.
The film tells the story of the life of Sister Luke a young Belgian woman, the daughter of the prominent surgeon, who decides to enter a convent. Sister Luke is an outstanding student in the science of tropical medicine, and has hopes of working in the Congo. She is deeply spiritual yet conflicted about whether or not she can conform to convent life. In spite of the doubt, Sister Luke makes the sacrifices required of her by her order, including a long period working in a mental institution, before finally being sent to Africa.
Audrey Hepburn in "The Nun's Story."After a bout of tuberculosis, Sister Luke returns to Belgium. When World War II begins, the nun’s are forbidden by the order to take sides. However, after the death of her father at the hands of the Germans, Sister Luke finds she cannot remain neutral in the face of the evil of Hitler's Germany, and makes the difficult decision to leave the convent.
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