What is Special about this DVD?
This 2000 unit limited edition All Regions release of "La Monaca di Monza", aka "The Awful Story of the Nun of Monza", "The Lady of Monza" does have English Audio, and Special Features including Deleted Scenes! The film accurately portrays 17th century Italy and gave rise to the genre that would come to be Erotic Exploitation / Nunsploitation by virtue of footage where actress Anne Heywood shows breasts as she is having thorns wrapped around her chest to chastise the flesh and end her lust.

Plot Summary:
This film is an accurate account of a case in 17th century Italy. The Spanish have occupied Italy. A Spanish tax collector is killed by a young Italian nobleman, Giampaolo Osio, played by Antonio Sabato. A local priest arranges for him to hide in the convent of Monza. Anne Haywood, as mother superior Virginia de Leyva, is also of noble birth. Two other nuns, who are sleeping with their priest and confessor, Father Paolo Arrigone, decide mother superior would be far less a threat if she got laid, so they smuggle Giampaolo Osio into her cell. He rapes her, but by the half way point, she is enjoying herself. The two begin a romance and she conceives a daughter. Eventually, the other nuns vote her out, and she is tried by the inquisition. Things do not end well for her or Giampaolo Osio.

Starring:
Anne Heywood ... Virginia de Leyva
Hardy Krüger ... Father Paolo Arrigone
Antonio Sabato ... Giampaolo Osio
Anna Maria Alegiani ... Sister Ottavia Ricci
Margarita Lozano ... Sister Benedetta Homati (as Margherita Lozano)
Giovanna Galletti ... Sister Angela Sacchi (as Giovanna Galetti)
Caterina Boratto ... Sister Francesca Imbersaga
Renzo Giovampietro ... Vicar Saraceno
Laura Belli ... Sister Candida Colomba
Maria Michi ... Sister Bianca Homati
Rita Caldana (as Rita Calderoni)

Directed By:
Eriprando Visconti

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Super Eight Films: Die Nonne von Verona, Sie lebte als Nonne, Sie liebte als frau
International Trailers for this feature and 5 Similar Titles
Chapter Selection Menu

Technical Details:
Widescreen (1.76:1)
Dolby Digital 2.0 (English, German Options)
1:37:19 Confirmed Runtime
All Regions Pal

MPAA Rating:
Unrated

The "Skin Factor":
Anne Heywood shows breasts as she is having thorns wrapped around her chest to chastise the flesh and end her lust.