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A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 7 wins & 3 nominations total
Adrien Borel
- Priest of Torcy (Curé de Torcy)
- (as Andre Guibert)
Rachel Bérendt
- Countess (La Comtesse)
- (as Marie-Monique Arkell)
Antoine Balpêtré
- Dr. Delbende (Docteur Delbende)
- (as Balpetre)
Gaston Séverin
- Canon (Le Chanoine)
- (as Gaston Severin)
Serge Bento
- Mitonnet
- (as Serge Benneteau)
Germaine Stainval
- La patronne du café
- (uncredited)
François Valorbe
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Georges Bernanos
- Robert Bresson(adaptation)
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe hand and handwriting in the film belong to Robert Bresson.
- Quotes
[subtitled version]
Countess: Love is stronger than death. Your scriptures say so.
Curé d'Ambricourt: We did not invent love. It has its order, its law.
Countess: God is its master.
Curé d'Ambricourt: He is not the master of love. He is love itself. If you would love, don't place yourself beyond love's reach.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Histoire(s) du cinéma: Les signes parmi nous (1999)
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The kind of integrity and faith so strong and real, it frightens even the church
A young priest has been assigned his first parish in a village somewhere in the North of France. Right from the first, essential opening shot in beautiful black and white, we instinctively get a sense of his isolation from any other human being. As the final credits rolled by, I don't know why I had the impulse to restart the DVD, and I watched the first 5 minutes of the movie again, realising just how much of a harbinger of extreme loneliness the opening frames are. Diary of a Country Priest is in good part about loneliness - the extreme physical, emotional and intellectual isolation of those who embark on an earnest mission, with an inability to compromise and a sincerity (with its resulting emotional vulnerability) which both frightens and repulses those who aren't ready to receive it. I was especially thankful to Bresson for having left us with a film about a priest which didn't involve his tiresome sexual issues in any shape or form - what a refreshing change! In the role of the young parish priest of Ambricourt, young Claude Laydu was in his debut role here - though he very occasionally shows his inexperience as an actor, he is nonetheless remarkable in the title role, and his sensitive, silently suffering, candid boyish face will remain with me for quite a while. It's extraordinary that such a movie, so completely devoid of any mass appeal or commercial potential, should have found someone willing to fund it. This kind of thing restores one's faith in the integrity and vision of certain cinematic enterprises.
- Asa_Nisi_Masa2
- Sep 22, 2006
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $47,000
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,674
- Feb 27, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $47,000
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Diary of a Country Priest (1951) officially released in India in English?
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