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Léon Morin, Priest is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean-Pierre Melville released in USA on 17 april 2009 with Jean-Paul Belmondo
Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
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Add to a movie listLéon Morin, Priest (French: Léon Morin, prêtre) is a 1961 film directed and scripted by Jean-Pierre Melville, and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva. Belmondo was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor. It is based on the 1952 Prix Goncourt-winning novel The Passionate Heart (French: Léon Morin, prêtre) by Béatrix Beck.
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In a town in the French Alps during the Occupation, Barny (Riva) is a young, wayward, sexually frustrated widow, living with her little girl. She is also a communist militant who long ago decided that the easiest way was the best. One day she enters a church, randomly chooses a priest (Belmondo) to confess to and, while in confessional, attempts to provoke him by criticizing Catholicism. Instead of being affronted, the priest engages her in an intellectual discussion regarding religion. The priest is Leon Morin, young, handsome, smart and altruistic. He invites Barny to continue the conversation outside of confessional. She begins regularly seeing him and is impressed by his moral strength, while he makes it his mission to steer her onto the right path.Actors
Jean-Paul Belmondo
(Leon Morin)
Emmanuelle Riva
(Barny)
Irène Tunc
(Christine Sangredin)
Volker Schlöndorff
(Un soldat allemand (uncredited))
Nicole Mirel
(Sabine Levy)
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