THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) (VERSION FRANAISE)

Details

• Release Year: 1951
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: A priest (Claude Laydu) arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The apathetic and hostile rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and from God. With this, his fourth film, Robert Bresson began to implement his stylistic philosophy as a filmmaker, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialogue, and the music, exacting a purity of image and sound.
• Cast: Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel, Rachel Bérendt, Nicole Maurey, Nicole Ladmiral, Martine Lemaire, Antoine Balpêtré, Jean Danet, Gaston Séverin, Yvette Etiévant, Bernard Hubrenne, Léon Arvel, Martial Morange, Gilberte Terbois, Serge Bento, Germaine Stainval, François Valorbe, Robert Bresson, Georges Bernanos, Léonce-Henri Burel
• Director: Robert Bresson
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: StudioCanal Image, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie