(The) Little Nuns (United States, 1963)


Figure 1.--This is Damiano an orphan at a convenant school in the Italian countryside outside Rome. An airline's jet planes flying over their convent school are disrupting classes in the school where nuns are teaching. The vibrations from the flights were also damaging the beautiful fresco of their patron saint. Sister Celeste (Catherine Spaak) and Mother Rachele are driven to Rome by Spugna, the convent handyman. They take on airline executive Livio Bertana (Amedeo Nazzari) about rerouting the flights. This is the beginning of a campaign that includes a visit to his home. The nuns give Bertana no peace in pursuing their efforts to get Bertanato change the airplane routes. Sister Celeste sees a chance for getting what she wants. Damiano (Sandro Bruni), one of the orphana from the convent, stows away in the car.

Nuns are teacing orphans at a convent in the Italian countryside outside Rome. An airline's jet planes flying over their convent school and disrupting classes in the school where the nuns are teaching the orphans. The vibrations from the flights were also damaging the beautiful fresco of their patron saint. Sister Celeste (Catherine Spaak) and Mother Rachele are driven to Rome by Spugna, the convent handyman. They take on airline executive Livio Bertana (Amedeo Nazzari) about rerouting the flights. This is the beginning of a campaign that includes a visit to his home. The nuns give Bertana no peace in pursuing their efforts to get Bertanato change the airplane routes. Sister Celeste sees a chance for getting what she wants. Damiano (Sandro Bruni), one of the orphana from the convent, stows away in the car. They go to his Bertana's home. His mistress, Ella, is charmed by littl Damiano. While all this is going on, a colleague seeking his job accuses Bertana of incompetence. The nins need money to buy airline stock so that they can attend the stockholders' meeting. Spugna enters and wins the prize at a judo contest. Bertana resigns his job, but the nuns take over the meeting. They actully save Bertana's job. He of course in gratitude, agrees to change the air routes. Then he marries Elena and adopts Damiano. The nuns are notvdone. A nun from a neighboring town bisits the convent and complains about jets passing over her school. Sister Celeste assures her tht there is nothing to worry about, she has a dear friend can solve the problem.







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