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Jane Fonda | Dr. Martha Livingston | |
Anne Bancroft | Sister Miriam Ruth | |
Meg Tilly | Sister Agnes | |
Anne Pitoniak | Dr. Livingston's Mother | |
Winston Rekert | Detective Langevin | |
Gratien Gelinas | Father Martineau | |
Guy Hoffman | Justice Joseph Leveau | |
Gabriel Arcand | Monsignor | |
Francoise Faucher | Eve LeClaire | |
Jacques Tourangeau | Eugene Lyon | |
Gratien Gélinas | Father Martineau | |
Françoise Faucher | Eve LeClaire | |
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Janine Fluet | Sister Marguerite | |
Deborah Grover | Sister Anne | |
Michele George | Sister Susanna | |
Samantha Langevin | Sister Jeannine | |
Jacqueline Blais | Sister David Marie |
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Producer | Norman Jewison
Charles Milhaupt Patrick Palmer |
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Writer | John Pielmeier
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Cinematography | Sven Nykvist
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Musician | Georges Delerue
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Agnes of God is an "opened up" adaptation of the minimalist stage play by John Pielmeier . Meg Tilly plays a young nun who secretly gives birth to a baby; the child's body is later found strangled to death. Court-appointed psychiatrist Jane Fonda is sent to the convent to investigate, a task made difficult by the weathervane behavior of mother superior Anne Bancroft . To draw out Tilly, who remembers nothing of the birth, Fonda suggests that hypnosis is called for. Playwright Pielmeier poses many questions—is Tilly a pure-and-simple murderess, or was there something "divine" in her act?—but offers frustratingly few answers. The evocative photography is by longtime Ingmar Bergman associate Sven Nykvist . — Hal Erickson |
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