Sister Smile
Original Title
Suor Sorriso- Director: Roger Deutsch
- Writer: Roger Deutsch; Francesca Terrenato
- Producer: Wieland Schulz-Keil; Kass Thomas
CGiii Comment
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. This is the same woman portrayed by Debbie Reynolds in the popular 1966 film 'The Singing Nun.'
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Cast & Characters
Ginevra Colonna as Janine;
Antonio Salines as Vitale;
Simona Caparrini as Clara;
Francesca Bianco as Mother Superior;
Stefania Bonafede as Claudia;
Ana Valeria Dini as Elsa;
Fabrizio Bordignon;
Vanessa Compagnucci