Lourdes
Lourdes
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.
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Cast
Umberto Orsini
as Pater Laurent
Maria João Luís
Filipe Ferrer
Carlos Rodrigues
Francisco Brás
Florence Darel
as Claire La Fontaine
Figueira Cid
Francisco Nicholson
João Lagarto
Paula Sá Nogueira
Jorge Falé
João D'Ávila
Sara Norte
Isabel Ruth
Laura Soveral
Carlos Vieira de Almeida
Elsa Valentim
José Eduardo
Alessandro Gassmann
as Bernard / Henri Guillaumet
Vítor Norte
as Jacomet
Sydne Rome
as Mutter Marie-Thérèse
João Maria Pinto
Rogério Samora
Carmen Santos
Nicolau Breyner
as Docteur Charcot
Carlos Curto
Lucinda Loureiro
Roger Souza
as François Soubirous
Helmut Griem
as Auguste La Fontaine
João Perry
Marques D'Arede
Diogo Dória
António Montez
Maria d'Aires
as Louise Soubirous
Günther Maria Halmer
as Kaplan Peyramale
