Where was The Nun's Story filmed?

Name: The Nun's Story
Genre: Drama, Biographical
Released: 1960
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Mildred Dunnock

1960 film, directed by Fred Zinnemann.

Bruges

The story is set in Belgium, about 74 miles (119 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in: Belgium
Filmed in: Bruges
Distance: About 74 miles (119 km) between Belgium and the nearest filming location.

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About The Nun's Story

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Released: 1960
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Audrey HepburnPeter FinchEdith EvansPeggy AshcroftMildred Dunnock Dean JaggerGabriella AndreiniBarbara O'NeilAve NinchiBeatrice Straight
Genre: Drama Biographical
Awards: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films; National Board of Review Award for Best Film

Gabrielle van der Mal, whose widowed father, Hubert, is a prominent surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s, hoping to serve in the Belgian Congo.

She takes her first vows and is sent to the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp.

Hesitating to answer and clearly agonizing over the choice, she eventually passes the exam, finishing fourth in a class of eighty.

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