LEON MORIN, PRIEST (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) (VERSION FRANAISE) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar Leon 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. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow-played by Emmanuelle Riva-a religious skeptic whose relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Leon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema's towering virtuosos.
• Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel, Gisèle Grimm, Marco Behar, Monique Bertho, Monique Hennessy, Cedric Grant, George Lambert, Marielle Gozzi, Patricia Gozzi, Gérard Buhr, Howard Vernon, Adeline Aucoc, Louis Saintève, Volker Schlöndorff, Jean-Pierre Melville, Béatrix Beck
• Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Lux
• Media Format: Movie