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Episode from the TELEAC/NOT series Kwintessens. Medievalist and Neerlandist Wybren Scheepsma wants to know all about convent life at the end of the Middle Ages. He acquires his knowledge from the stories that the nuns themselves wrote and in doing so discovers a world where one nun competes with another. A contest with high stakes in piety and devotion.

Credits

Executive producer
Set geluid
Production company
Teleac/NOT

Title: Kwintessens - Wybren Scheepsma: Hemels verlangen
Year: 2000
Duration : 25 minutes
Category: Short Documentary
Edition: NFF 2000

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