Sister San Sulpicio (Spanish: La hermana San Sulpicio) is a 1952 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis Lucia and starring Carmen Sevilla, Jorge Mistral and Julia Caba Alba.Mira p.191 It was the third film adaptation of Armando Palacio Valdés's 1889 novel Sister San Sulpicio.
Plot Gloria and Ceferino are two totally opposite people. He is a Galician doctor, serious and circumspect; she, on the other hand, is a beautiful Andalusian, rich and with an outgoing and dominant character. However, Gloria makes a surprising and unusual decision: to become a nun. By chance, she is assigned to a sanatorium of which Dr. Ceferino has been appointed as the new director. Love will arise between them, but they cannot marry because she is a nun.
Cast Carmen Sevilla as Gloria Alvargonzález / Hermana San Sulpicio Jorge Mistral as Ceferino Sanjurjo Julia Caba Alba as Hermana Guadalupe Milagros Carrión Juana Ginzo Manuel Guitián Manolo Gómez Bur as Daniel Suárez Casimiro Hurtado Ana de Leyva Manuel Luna as D. Sabino Juana Mansó Antonio Ozores Antonio Riquelme Rosario Royo
Critical reception
La hermana San Sulpicio has received mixed reviews from later scholars. The film had a substantial commercial performance, with 362,287 spectators and 4,076,608 pesetas in box-office receipts. The film received a prize from the Sindicato Nacional del Espectáculo.
References
Bibliography Mira, Alberto. The A to Z of Spanish Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
External links