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The Convent (1995) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1995 · 91 mins · English
- Directed by
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Starring
- Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Leonor Silveira, João Bénard da Costa, Luís Miguel Cintra, Heloísa Miranda
American professor Michael Padovic travels to a remote Portuguese convent with his wife Helene, convinced the monastery’s archives contain the evidence he needs to overturn traditional scholarship and demonstrate that William Shakespeare was actually born in Spain rather than England.
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