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Diary of a Country Priest

Diary of a Country Priest

Diary of a Country Priest

cast: Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel

year: 1951

colour: no

certificate: PG

director: Robert Bresson

runtime: 115

A young priest arrives in a small village in Northern France to take on his first parish. Although he performs the duties of a priest with diligence and humility, he remains an outsider, shunned and even reviled by his neighbours. His feeling of isolation and apparent inability to improve things bring on a depression that puts his faith to the test. Worse still, he is suffering from an illness which compels him to live on a meagre diet of bread and wine, and his fear of dying places a greater strain on his faith...

Prix Louis Delluc 1950

Grand Prix, Venice Film Festival 1951

sun 23 jan 4.15pm | screening introduced by Sarah Cooper (Film studies, King's College London)

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