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The Holy Girl
She is both temptation and salvation.
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
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Synopsis
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.
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Cast
María AlchéAmalia
Mercedes MoránHelena
Julieta ZylberbergJosefina
Carlos BellosoDr. Jano
Alejandro UrdapilletaFreddy
Mía MaestroInés
Marta LubosMirta
Arturo GoetzDr. VesalioCredits
- Directed by
- Lucrecia Martel
- Written by
- Lucrecia Martel
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Spanish
- Original title
- La niña santa
- Budget
- $1.4M
Production
- Teodora FilmItaly
- La Pasionaria S.r.l.
R&C ProduzioniItaly
El DeseoSpain- Fondazione Montecinemaverita
Hubert Bals FundNetherlands
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