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Sœur Sourire: Who Killed the Voice of God? (2021)

1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on the world charts. Her name: Sister Smile. A popstar with the trajectory of a comet who understands her success no more than the double meaning of her words… The harder the fall will be. Even God does not protect sharks' appetites or pretenses of success! Who killed the little voice of God? Here is the tragic story of an innocent voice, of an extraordinary fate, almost of a curse ...

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Top billed cast

Sœur SourireSelf (archive footage)
Ed SullivanSelf (archive footage)
Noël MamèreSelf (archive footage)
Pierre HemeSelf (archive footage)
Florence DelaporteSelf
Deb ChadwickSelf
Karl AndersonSelf
Alain ClossonSelf
Debbie ReynoldsSelf (archive footage)
Charles-Antoine de RouvreNarrator (voice)

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