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Léon Morin, Priest (French: Léon Morin, prêtre) is a 1961 French drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was adapted by Melville from Béatrix Beck's novel The Passionate Heart (French: Léon Morin, prêtre), which won the Prix Goncourt in 1952.
Léon Morin, Priest: Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel. Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1961-09-22
Jul 26, 2011 · Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France.
- Léon Morin
Sep 15, 2023 · Léon Morin, Priest (1961) - Trailer. In Nazi-occupied France, a passionate and atheistic widow, Barny, forms a complex bond with the charismatic and compassionate priest, Léon Morin. ...more.
- 3 min
- 575
- Coral Gables Art Cinema
Apr 17, 2009 · The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to baptize her and chooses priest Léon Morin to do so.
A self-confessed atheist and communist, she attends confession on a lark one afternoon and meets Jean-Paul Belmondo’s titular figure, whose forbidding wardrobe and intimidating intelligence cannot contain his elemental sex appeal.
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Léon Morin, Priest. Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar LÉON MORIN, PRIEST, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France.
