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The Lady of Monza is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Eriprando Visconti with Anne Heywood

The Lady of Monza (1969)

La monaca di Monza

The Lady of Monza
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Length 1h45
Directed by
OriginItalie
Genres Drama
Rating54% 2.717422.717422.717422.717422.71742

The Lady of Monza (Italian: La monaca di Monza, also known as The Awful Story of the Nun of Monza and The Nun of Monza) is a 1969 Italian historical drama film directed by Eriprando Visconti. It is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza", whose story was made famous by the Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed.



^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.

^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.

Actors

Anne Heywood

(Virginia de Leyva)Hardy Krüger

(Pater Paolo Arrigone)Antonio Sabàto

(Giampaolo Ossio)Tino Carraro

(Monsignore Barca)Margarita Lozano

(Sister Benedetta Homati)
And :
Giovanna Galletti
Caterina Boratto
Renzo Giovampietro
Maria Michi
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