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sLa Badessa di Castro (The Abbess of Castro) - 1974
directed by Armando Crispino
starring, among others, Pier Paolo Capponi, Barbara Bouchet and Mara Venier.
The film is based on the story by Stendhal written and published in 1839.
Plot
The noblewoman Elena Campireali, who has become a nun against her will, falls in love for a bishop, remaining pregnant. The Church, aware of this crime (the story is set in the sixteenth century) instructs the Inquisition to make her confess who’s the baby's father. The woman, after giving birth to the baby, chooses suicide to torture.
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She did not commit suicide. She was tortured to death and died slowy in ghasly agonies. Completly naked.