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
Günther Maria Halmer
as Kaplan Peyramale
João D'Ávila
Elsa Valentim
Maria d'Aires
as Louise Soubirous
Nicolau Breyner
as Docteur Charcot
João Lagarto
Rogério Samora
Maria João Luís
António Montez
João Perry
João Maria Pinto
Paula Sá Nogueira
Carmen Santos
Carlos Curto
Jorge Falé
Diogo Dória
Filipe Ferrer
Vítor Norte
as Jacomet
Francisco Brás
Sydne Rome
as Mutter Marie-Thérèse
Umberto Orsini
as Pater Laurent
Marques D'Arede
Isabel Ruth
Florence Darel
as Claire La Fontaine
Helmut Griem
as Auguste La Fontaine
Francisco Nicholson
Carlos Rodrigues
Alessandro Gassmann
as Bernard / Henri Guillaumet
Figueira Cid
Sara Norte
Carlos Vieira de Almeida
Lucinda Loureiro
Roger Souza
as François Soubirous
Laura Soveral
José Eduardo
