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Diary of a Country Priest

Cast

Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel, Rachel B�rendt View All

Crew

Robert Bresson (Screenplay), Robert Bresson (Director) View All

Release: Feb. 7th, 1951

Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining...

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christine
There's a long French tradition of the poverty striken country priest in his mildewed, patched vestments which match the austerity of his surroundings - French people would recognise him immediately.

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