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Léon Morin, Priest

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Year of participation	2017
Program	Tributes

Producer(s)	Georges de Beauregard, Carlo Ponti
Director(s)	Jean-Pierre Melville
Script	Jean-Pierre Melville
Director of Photography	Henri Decaë
Production designer	Daniel Guéret
Music by	Martial Solal
Sound	Guy Villette , Jacques Maumont
Edit	Jacqueline Meppiel
Cast	Jean-Paul Belmondo, Emmanuelle Riva, Irène Tunc
Production company(-ies)	Rome-Paris-Films, С.С. Champion

Synopsis

In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting texts and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live in a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Léon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Léon lends books to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism and becomes closer to Léon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.

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