Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God?

Jun 11, 2021

0h 52m

★ 6.4

Overview

1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on the world charts. Her name: Sister Smile. A popstar with the trajectory of a comet who understands her success no more than the double meaning of her words… The harder the fall will be. Even God does not protect sharks' appetites or pretenses of success! Who killed the little voice of God? Here is the tragic story of an innocent voice, of an extraordinary fate, almost of a curse ...

Genres

Documentary

Music

Drama

Production Companies

Zeta Productions

ARTE GEIE

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

Sœur Sourire

Self (archive footage)

Ed Sullivan

Self (archive footage)

Noël Mamère

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Heme

Self

Florence Delaporte

Self

Deb Chadwick

Self

Karl Anderson

Self

Alain Closson

Self (archive footage)

Debbie Reynolds

Narrator (voice)

Charles-Antoine de Rouvre

(voice)

Marianne Jamet

(voice)

Paola Guillemot

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