Mariette in Ecstasy

Synopsis

In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.

Main Cast

Geraldine O'Rawe

Mariette Baptiste

Age : 53 | Popularity : 3%

Alex Appel

Sister Philomene

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

John Mahoney

Dr. Claude Baptiste

Age : 77 | Popularity : 12%

Mary McDonnell

Prioress

Age : 71 | Popularity : 31%

Cara Pifko

Sister Hermance

Age : 48 | Popularity : 7%

Eva Marie Saint

Mother Saint-Raphael

Age : 99 | Popularity : 11%

Nancy Beatty

Sister

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Rutger Hauer

Chaplan

Age : 75 | Popularity : 40%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	John Bailey
Editing	Editor	Mary Jo Markey
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Vicki Graef
Writing	Novel	Ron Hansen
Camera	Director of Photography	Paul Sarossy
Sound	Music	Christopher Klatman
Department	Role	Name

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