Léon Morin, prêtre.

Resource Information

The work Léon Morin, prêtre. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Léon Morin, prêtre.

Statement of responsibility

Rialto Pictures ; Studio Canal ; Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France ; Carlo Ponti, Georges de Beauregard présentent ; adaptation et réalisation de Jean-Pierre Melville

Title variation

Léon Morin, priest

Contributor

• Riva, Emmanuèle.
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Lux Compagnie cinématographique de France
• Rialto Pictures LLC
• Studio Canal
• Beauregard, Georges de.
• Beck, Béatrix
• Belmondo, Jean-Paul, 1933-
• Bertho, Monique.
• Buhr, Gérard, 1928-1988
• Béhar, Marco.
• Eyraud, Marc, 1924-2005
• Gozzi, Marielle.
• Gozzi, Patricia.
• Grant, Cédric.
• Grimm, Gisèle.
• Grégoire, Nina
• Hennessy, Monique.
• Lambert, George.
• Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.
• Mirel, Nicole.
• Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007
• Raisner, Albert.
• Solal, Martial.
• Tunc, Irène, 1938-1972.
• Vernon, Howard, 1914-1996

Actor

• Grimm, Gisèle.
• Buhr, Gérard, 1928-1988
• Béhar, Marco.
• Tunc, Irène, 1938-1972.
• Grégoire, Nina
• Lambert, George.
• Grant, Cédric.
• Belmondo, Jean-Paul, 1933-
• Gozzi, Patricia.
• Hennessy, Monique.
• Mirel, Nicole.
• Gozzi, Marielle.
• Bertho, Monique.
• Eyraud, Marc, 1924-2005
• Riva, Emmanuèle.
• Vernon, Howard, 1914-1996

Adapter

• Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.

Composer

• Solal, Martial.

Director

• Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.

Performer

• Raisner, Albert.

Producer

• Ponti, Carlo, 1912-2007
• Beauregard, Georges de.

Screenwriter

• Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1917-1973.

Subject

• France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- France -- Drama
• Priests -- Psychology -- Drama
• Widows -- France -- Drama
• Catholic Church -- France -- Clergy -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations

Genre

• Fiction films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations

Language

• fre
• fre
• eng
• fre

Summary

Life during wartime is not simply men shooting at one another, but also women tending to their children. The widow Barny is one, an office worker in a rural village in occupied France, whose child's father was a Jewish man. When genial Italians occupy the village, all is well. Then the Nazis arrive, round up and shoot the Italians, and get down to the business of rounding up Jews. Barny has her daughter baptized as a Catholic for legal certification--and also sends her to hide on a farm in the country. A communist, she takes out her anger at this subterfuge by arguing with the priest, the young Father Morin. The priest and the widow begin a series of spiritually-cum-sexually-charged dialogues. Barny's crush on Father Morin offers a place for the film to examine religious conviction, while exploring the philosophy of belief and its meaning in everyday struggle

Member of

• Criterion collection

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Henri Decaë ; music, Martial Solal ; harmonica, Albert Raisner ; production design, Daniel Gueret, Robert Christides ; editors, Jacqueline Meppiel, Nadine Marquand, Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Language note

In French, with optional subtitles in English

LC call number

PQ2603.E368

LC item number

L42 1961b

PerformerNote

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel, Gisèle Grimm, Marco Béhar, Monique Bertho, Marc Heyraud, Nina Gregoire, Monique Hennessy, Cédric Grant, George Lambert, Marielle Gozzi, Patricia Gozzi, Gérard Buhr, Howard Vernon

Runtime

117

Series statement

Criterion collection

Series volume

572

Technique

live action