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La Vie miraculeuse de Thrse Martin The Miraculous Life of Thrse Martin, is a French film, silent, directed by Julien Duvivier, and released in 1929. It is a stark and striking biographical account of the late 19th century Discalced Carmelite nun who died at agefrom tuberculosis and was canonized in 1925. The film is based on the spiritual autobiography Thrse wrote, LHistoire dune me. The same material inspired Alain Cavaliers film Thrse. Simone Bourday has genuine adolescent fervour as Thrse and Andr Marnay is pathetically fine as her father. The sequence of the taking of the veil has extraordinary documentary force. Art direction on the film was by the future director ChristianJaque.

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