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Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Overview
The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to baptize her and chooses priest Léon Morin to do so. After spending some time with him, the relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.
Length 117 minutes
Actors
Jean-Paul Belmondo | Emmanuelle Riva | Irène Tunc | Nicole Mirel | Gisèle Grimm | Marco Behar | Marc Eyraud | Monique Hennessy | Edith Loria | Monique Bertho | Nina Grégoire | Simone Vannier | Lucienne Marchand | Nelly Pitorre | Ernest Varial | Chantal Gozzi | Patricia Gozzi | Marielle Gozzi | Cédric Grant | George Lambert | Gérard Buhr | Howard Vernon | Renée Liques | Volker Schlöndorff | Claude Achard | Adeline Aucoc | Maurice Auzel | André Badin | Madeleine Ganne | Louis Saintève