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Diary of a Country Priest

Diary of a Country Priest

1951, Movie, 1h 55min

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

Country: France

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Germaine Stainval,

Antoine Balpêtré

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Critic David Parkinson

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10

...like Carl Theodor Dreyer before him, Bresson succeeded in combining asceticism with spirituality...

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Critic Roger Ebert

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10

The rewards of his films unfold slowly from their stories, and pierce deeply.

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