My one issue with this film.

Right... and besides that, I believe one of the nuns mentions how the Soviets came back a few times and each time she thought the soldiers would finally just kill everyone.

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I never got the impression that all the nuns were pregnant, just a lot of them. Keep in mind, women working in the same office, let alone living in the same home, often link menstrual cycles. They would, in fact, have similar periods of ovulation.

It could happen.

And remember, only seven of them were pregnant, but all of them were raped repeatedly for days. AND there was a mention that the Germans had abused them first, then the Soviets took the area, and raped them some more.

I believe the movie also covered a time period at least a month perhaps a few months. There could be pregnancies from the time of the Germans and then some from the Soviets.

What I found a bit of a problem was that only the Mother Superior was found to have VD. Or perhaps she was just the more advanced case because all of the nuns were raped, and I can't see the ONLY man with VD raped ONLY the one elderly nun.

Or, and this just occurred to me. Syphilis is not an instant disease, hardly becoming "advanced" in just nine months. The nurse said the Mother Superior had "advanced" lesions, and she certainly was in general bad health. It also takes time for the disease to cause mental and decision making problems.

Perhaps she, as Mother Superior, when the Germans first took the area was raped as a lesson or expression of control. She may have kept it secret from the other nuns. The only comfort in that scenario would be that she would have passed on the disease to the next lot of men who raped her.

Be who you are. Everyone else is already taken.

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