Behind Convent Walls (Interno di un Convento) is a film created in 1978 by an Italian director Walerian Borowczyk. The action of the drama features a 19th century convent and its cloistered nuns’ lives, including their passions and forbidden feelings also. More in detail as the narrative is being advanced, the viewers will be able to see the nuns dealing with the “allure of the flesh,” conflicting with their sense of duty and marriage commitment. This enters into promiscuous conduct, such as having secret affairs and even making confessions of having lustful thoughts.
The incumbent bears the signs of religiousness as well eroticism which is an ingredient of concepts typically associated with Borowczyk art style. The film as others encountered censorship in many states but Behind Convent Walls is in a way praised for her story which touches sensitive topics of orthodox religious elites and productive use of visuals. It stays to be one of its kind in the erotic drama industry as it has a distinct style which harasses the standards and raises questions on the interface of religion, oppression and longing.