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The Suspended Vocation is a french film of genre Drama directed by Raoul Ruiz with Daniel Gélin

The Suspended Vocation (1978)

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Length 1h35
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OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama
Rating65% 3.275863.275863.275863.275863.27586

The Suspended Vocation (French: La vocation suspendue) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It is an adaptation of the 1950 novel of the same name by Pierre Klossowski.

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L'histoire de Jérôme, qui s'interroge sur sa vocation de prêtre, racontée à partir d'images en noir et blanc, et d'autres, en couleurs, avec d'autres acteurs. Jérôme doit faire face aux querelles théologiques qui traversent la communauté à laquelle il appartient, aux dissensions entre les Jésuites et les partisans de la Vierge, aux soupçons qui pèsent sur lui.

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