Journal d'un curé de campagne Diary of a country priest

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Title:

Author:

Carré, Léon.

Edition:

[DVD version].

Publication Information:

[United States] : Criterion Collection : available from Image Entertainment, [2004]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

The Criterion collection

Criterion collection.

Summary:

A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his country diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and God.

General Note:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.

Based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.

Special features: audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie; 11 minutes of deleted scenes; new and improved English subtitle translation; new essay by film critic Frédéric Bonnaud; new high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound.

For specific features see interactive menu.

Language:

French

Reading Level:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subject Term:

Diaries -- Drama.

Priests -- France -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Foreign films.

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