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Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre), 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, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema’s towering virtuosos.
Original Release
09/21/1961
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jean-Paul Belmondo | Léon Morin / Leon Morin |
Emmanuelle Riva | Barny |
Irène Tunc | Christine Sangredin |
Nicole Mirel | Sabine Levy |
Gisèle Grimm | Lucienne |
Marco Behar | Edelman |
Monique Bertho | Marion |
Marc Eyraud | Anton |
Nina Grégoire | (as Nina Gregoire) |
Monique Hennessy | Arlette |
Directors
Writers
Jean-Pierre Melville, Béatrix Beck
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jean-Paul Belmondo | Léon Morin / Leon Morin |
Emmanuelle Riva | Barny |
Irène Tunc | Christine Sangredin |
Nicole Mirel | Sabine Levy |
Gisèle Grimm | Lucienne |
Marco Behar | Edelman |
Monique Bertho | Marion |
Marc Eyraud | Anton |
Nina Grégoire | (as Nina Gregoire) |
Monique Hennessy | Arlette |
Edith Loria | Danielle Holdenberg |
Micheline Schererre | |
Renée Liques | |
Simone Vannier | Une secrétaire |
Lucienne Marchand | Une secrétaire |
Nelly Pitorre | Une secrétaire |
Ernest Varial | Le directeur |
Chantal Gozzi | France / France (younger) |
Cédric Grant | American soldier |
George Lambert | American soldier |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Georges de Beauregard | Producer |
Carlo Ponti | Producer |
Pierre Gurgo-Salice | Producer |
Editors
Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte, Nadine Trintignant, Jacqueline Meppiel