Sister Smile (2001)
1h 38m
Running Time
February 12, 2001Release Date
Plot.
Back in late 1963, a Belgian nun known only as Soeur Sourire, or Sister Smile, topped America's pop music charts with the relentlessly cheerful tune "Dominique," from an album of 12 songs that sold 1.5 million copies. From the little that is known of the ill-fated nun's life, Italy-based American writer-director Roger Deutsch has made the boldly speculative yet persuasive Italian-language film "Suor Sorriso" in which the nun (Ginevra Colonna) emerges as a tormented, unstable woman who abruptly left the convent after her recording triumph before taking her final vows. Running a shelter for wayward girls, she and another ex-nun (Simona Caparrini) enter a passionate, tumultuous and destructive affair. Colonna's volcanic Deckers craves spiritual redemption as well as the other woman's love but is so beset by demons that she embarks on a flamboyant, drug-fueled downward spiral that ultimately engulfs her lover as well as herself.
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Cast & Crew.
Ginevra Colonna
Janine
Antonio Salines
Vitale
Simona Caparrini
Clara
Francesca Bianco
Mother Superior
Roger Deutsch
Director
Francesca Terrenato
Writer
Kass Thomas
Producer
Andrea Salvadori
Composer
Emma Stow
Composer
Wieland Schulz-Keil
Executive Producer
Andrea Pica
Editor
Giulio Pietromarchi
Cinematographer
Luigi Scoglio
Production Design
Antonella Conte
Art Direction
Gabriele Moretti
Sound Mixer
Antonio Dolce
Boom Operator
Details.
Release DateFebruary 12, 2001
Original NameSuor Sorriso
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Wiki.
Sister Sorriso is a 2001 Italian biographical film and was directed by Roger Deutsch.