Léon Morin, Priest
In The Second World War, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers getting here in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny deals with her little girl and also functions remedying examinations and also really feels a great tourist attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans get here, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to stay in a farm in the countryside and also finds that Sabine's brother has actually been apprehended and also sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. The atheist Barny makes a decision to baptize her daughter to secure her and also chooses clergyman Léon Morin to talk about with him motifs related to religion and Catholicism and Léon offers publications to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism as well as comes to be closer to Léon, really feeling an unrequited desire for him.
Released: 1961-09-21
Duration: 130
min