Not of this World

Mar 26, 1999

1h 40m

★ 6.3

Overview

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Lumière & Co.

Mikado Film

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Cast

Sister Caterina

Margherita Buy

Ernesto

Silvio Orlando

Teresa

Carolina Freschi

Esmeralda

Maria Cristina Minerva

Mother Superior

Sonia Gessner

Gabriele

Alessandro Di Natale

Gianfranco

Riccardo De Torrebruna

Jogger

Stefano Abbati

Ernesto's friend

Fabio Sartor

Caterina's mother

Giuliana Lojodice

Marina

Marina Massironi

Bald man at the nursery school

Silvano Piccardi

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

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