Diary of a Country Priest

Original title: Journal d'un curé de campagne

“A priest of humble origin, lost in the maze of worldiness”

• 1951
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• 1h 55m
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• NR

• Drama

★ 7.5 TMDB Rating · 291 votes

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.

Director

Robert Bresson

Release date

Feb 7, 1951

Original language

French

Origin

France