Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Directed byJesús Franco

Written byMariana Alcoforado (novel)

Screenplay by

• Erwin C. Dietrich
• Christine Lembach
• Jesús Franco^[1]

Produced by

• Erwin C. Dietrich
• Max Dora

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
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Directed by	Jesús Franco
Written by	Mariana Alcoforado (novel)
Screenplay by	Erwin C. Dietrich Christine Lembach Jesús Franco[1]
Produced by	Erwin C. Dietrich Max Dora
Starring	Susan Hemingway William Berger Herbert Fux Ana Zanatti
Cinematography	Peter Baumgartner
Edited by	Marie-Luise Buschke (as Marie-Louise Buschke)
Music by	Walter Baumgartner
Production companies	Ascot Film Cinemec Zweite Produktions KG Elite Film
Distributed by	Avis Film
Release date	March 10, 1977 (1977-03-10) (West Germany)
Running time	89 minutes
Countries	West Germany Switzerland
Language	German
Box office	ESP 36,890,043 (Spain)

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (German: Die Liebesbriefe einer portugesischen Nonne) is a 1977 West German-Swiss film directed by Jesús Franco and produced by Erwin Dietrich, loosely based on the Letters of a Portuguese Nun attributed to Mariana Alcoforado. It starred Susan Hemingway, (German actress, born in 1960), and William Berger. Franco co-wrote the screenplay with producer Dietrich.^[2]

It tells the story of Maria, a girl in Inquisition-era Portugal, whom a priest sees cavorting with a boy. He orders her to become a nun as penance. In the convent Maria gets subjected to all sorts of torture and humiliation at the hands of the priest and the mother superior.

The movie is part of a genre known as "nunsploitation".