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.| Original Title: | Léon Morin, prêtre |
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| Status: | Released (1961-09-22) |
| Awards: | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 1 nomination total |
| BoxOffice: | $72,078 |
| Screen: | Béatrix Beck, Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Productions: | Rome-Paris Films, Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica |
| Production Countries: | France, Italy |
| Spoken Languages: | Deutsch, Français, English |
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- 267962: Emmanuelle Riva - Barny
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- 114349: Gisèle Grimm - Lucienne
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Crews
- 3831: Jean-Pierre Melville - Director - Directing
- 1711211: Béatrix Beck - Novel - Writing
- 3831: Jean-Pierre Melville - Writer - Writing
- 3778: Carlo Ponti - Producer - Production
- 3779: Georges de Beauregard - Producer - Production
- 71357: Jacqueline Meppiel - Editor - Editing
- 10249: Volker Schlöndorff - Assistant Director - Directing
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The hero of the movie, we have here is not a human being, or if he is, then for this modern world, he is a joker. With such a religious icon, we are given another character who is like us. Who behaves and thinks like us. Poor widow gets somehow obsessed with this priest who, I felt i ....
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