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Monsignor is a 1982 American drama film directed by Frank Perry about a Roman Catholic priest's rise through the ranks of the Vatican, during and after World War II. Along the way, he involves the Vatican in the black marketeering operations of a Mafia don, and has an affair with a woman in the postulant stage of becoming a nun. He eventually ...
Oct 22, 1982 · Monsignor: Directed by Frank Perry. With Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller. An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.
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- Crime, Drama, War
- Frank Perry
- 1982-10-22
Monsignor is a 1982 film that depicts the Vatican as a corrupt and dishonest institution, with a priest (Christopher Reeve) who engages in illegal activities and has an affair with a nun. Roger Ebert criticizes the film for its lack of purpose, direction and coherence, and compares it to Luis Bu–uel's anticlerical broadsides.
Summaries. An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II. John Flaherty is a young and ambitious American priest who arrives in the Papal sovereign city state of the Vatican in 1944 to take his holy orders as a Catholic priest.
Father John Flaherty, played by Jason Miller, is a young American priest who faces moral dilemmas during the war. He engages in the black market, falls in love with a nun, and struggles with his faith and vocation.
- Frank Perry
- Remo De Angelis
Monsignor. Ambitious priest John Flaherty (Christopher Reeve) is thrilled to have received a post at the Vatican, but arrives to find the church in financial disarray. Undaunted, he partners with...
- Drama
Monsignor (1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
