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SOEUR SOURIRE

By Stijn CONINX

SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH - as DISTR Theatrical, DVD-video

Drama - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Stijn CONINX
- Writer(s)
- Ariane FERT, Chris VANDERSTAPPEN, Stijn CONINX
- Cast
- Cécile DE FRANCE, Chris LOMME, Filip PEETERS, Francois BEUKELAERS, Jan DECLEIR, Jo DESEURE, Marie KREMER, Sandrine BLANCKE
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-4AA5-0000-4-0000-0000-P
- EIDR
- 10.5240/7906-3873-E183-BDBB-C838-R
- Producer(s)
- Peter BOUCKAERT (Eyeworks Film & TV Drama)
- Synopsis
- Sœur Sourire is a moving story based on the life of Jeannine, a young Belgian girl who joined the convent and became a star in 1961 when she scored a worldwide number-one hit. The tragedy experienced by this young woman, who adopted the stage name Sœur Sourire, has everything to do with love; She desperately tries to give others the love she never received from her hard-hearted mother. She becomes attached to Annie, but when the latter tries to get closer, she runs. She dreams of moving away to far places, to Africa. When the situation at home becomes unbearable, she feels that joining a convent is the only way out. Life in the convent is hard for the young, passionate woman, but also gives her moments of joy she had never had before. She composes a song, Dominique, and is used by the church in an attempt to rejuvenate its waning image.
- Partners & financing
- Les Films de la Passerelle (BE), Paradis Films (FR)
  Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Tax Shelter, Eurimages, Wallimage, CCA et les télédistributeurs wallons, Canal +, TPS Star, La Banque Postale Image 2, Uni Etoile 6, Carrimages 5, CNC, vtm, TRL-TVI