Charles Millot

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

Burt Lancaster stars in this John Frankenheimer wartime thriller as a station master and French resistance fighter trying to prevent the theft of valuable artworks by a Nazi colonel who has secured a train to get the paintings to Germany.