Agnes of God (1985)

Country of Origin: USA/Canada
Year of Production: 1985
Running Times: 95 98 100 113 138 minsFormat: Metrocolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Corporation / Delphi IV
Producer: Norman Jewison, Patrick J. Palmer
Associate Producer: Bonnie Palef
Stage Producers: Kenneth Waissman, Lou Kramer

SCRIPT
Screenplay/Play: John Pielmeier

DIRECTION
Director: Norman Jewison

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Sven Nykvist

EDITING
Editor: Antony Gibbs

MUSIC
Music: Georges Delerue

SOUND
Sound: Richard Lightstone

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Renée April

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: SFX Design Inc

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Decor: Jaro Dick

OTHER CREW
Production Assistant: Bruce McDonald

LOCATIONS
Locations: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Rockwood, Ontario, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CAST
Jane Fonda (Doctor Martha Livingston)
Anne Bancroft (Mother Miriam Ruth)
Meg Tilly (Sister Agnes)
Anne Pitoniak (Dr Livingston's mother)
Winston Rekert (Detective Langevin)
Gratien Gélinas (Father Martineau)
Guy Hoffman (Justice Joseph Leveau)
Gabriel Arcand (Monsignor)
Françoise Faucher (Eve Le Claire)
Jacques Tourangeau (Eugene Lyon)
Janine Fluet (Sister Marguerite)
Deborah Grover (Sister Anne)
Michele George (Sister Susanna)
Samantha Langevin (Sister Jeannine)
Jacqueline Blais (.Sister David Marie)
Françoise Berd (Sister Therese)
Mimi D'Estée (Sister Elizabette)
Rita Tuckett (Sister Geraldine)
Lillian Graham (Sister Madeline Marie)
Norma Dell'Agnese (Sister Genevieve)
Muguette Moureau (Sister Luke)
Janice Bryan (Sister Mary Joseph)
Agnes Middleton (Sister Paul)
France Arbour (housekeeper)
Laurel Lyle (Helen the receptionist)
Victor Désy (librarian)
Charlotte Laurier (young prostitute)
Peter Langley, Nicole Marie Abbat, Matthew Armstrong, Chava Mandlsohn, Charles S. Pottie S.J. (Sister Genevieve's family)
Gerry Huckstep (paramedic)
Marc Denis (newscaster)
Herbert Luft (television reporter)
André Lacoste (male patient)
Jennifer Jewison (female patient)
Carole Chatel (lab technician)
Daniel Tremblay (police detective)

The slightly unearthly nun Sister Agnes gives birth to baby which she claims to be a virgin birth. The baby dies and a struggle ensues between Mother Superior Miriam Ruth, who wants Agnes to be left alone, and psychiatrist Dr Martha Livingston who wants to find out what really happened to Agnes.

Spain
Video Distributor: CIC/RCA-Columbia

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia

UK
Video Distributor: RCA-Columbia; Cinema Club

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Video Distributor: Columbia-Tristar

Finland
Rating: K-16

Sweden
Rating: 15

UK
Rating: PG/15

USA
Rating: PG-13

1985
August
21: Canada - premiere

September
13: Canada - theatrical release
13: USA - theatrical release

March
7: Sweden - theatrical release
12: France - theatrical release
21: Finland - theatrical release

Agnese di Dio - Italian title
Agnes de Dios - Spanish title
Agnes de Dieu - French title
Agnes - Engel im Feuer - German title

Anticristo pp.46-47

Elliot's Guide to Films on Video p.11

Empire December 1998 p.148

Film Review March 1987 p.42#

Films and Filming March 1986 p.30

Première (France) March 1986 p.10
review (by Jean-Paul Chaillet)

Today 9 March 1986 p.40

Video Source Book (13th Edition) p.46

KEYWORDS

nuns; convents; immaculate-conception; psychiatrists; babies; infanticide; priests; rape; stigmata