The Monk (1990)
January 17, 1990Release Date
The Monk (1990)
January 17, 1990Release Date

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Paul McGann
Father Lorenzo Rojas

Sophie Ward
Matilde de la Venegas

Isla Blair
Mother Agueda

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Sister Ines

Freda Dowie
Sister Ursula

Laura Davenport
Doña Elvira Dauphin

Sophie Linfield
Angela Dauphin

Manuel de Blas
Inquisitor

Mark Elstob
Ramon de Medeira

Marina Saura
Jacinta

Luis Hostalot
Captain

Suzanne Bertish
Sister Mariana

Pepa Sarsa
Sister Camila

Fulgencio Saturno
Father Pablo

Gaspar Cano
Antonio

Manuel Pereiro
Prior

Concha Hidalgo
Nun

Luis Maluenda
Spokesman

Stuart Sutherland
Lucas

Javier Serrano
Novice

Lorenzo Collado
Exorcist

Matthew Lewis
Novel

Muir Sutherland
Producer

Gumersindo Andrés
Production Design

Francisco Lara Polop
Writer / Director

José Luis Matesanz
Editor

Juan Sánchez Castro
Property Master

Antón García Abril
Music

Ángel Luis Fernández
Director of Photography
Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
The Monk (also known as The Final Temptation or The Seduction of a Priest) is a 1990 historical drama film directed by Francisco Lara Polop and starring Paul McGann and Sophie Ward. Based on the 1796 Gothic novel The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, it was adapted for the screen by Polop, and employs the common depiction of the 18th century representing “the stately, the lavish, the sensuous, and even the lubricious.” In this way, The Monk can be seen as a heritage film, in which “the past is delivered as a museum of sounds and images, an iconographic display,” though these films are sometimes discredited as attempts to “transform the past into a series of commodities for the entertainment market.” The film was Lara Polop's last as a director, and continues the themes of eroticism and horror found throughout his works.