Under the Sun of Satan

(1987)

★ 6 IMDb · 139 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1987

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: France

Director: Maurice Pialat

Cast: Жерар Депардье, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Brigitte Legendre, Alain Artur, Yann Dedet, Jean-Claude Bourlat, Жан-Кристоф Буве, Philippe Pallut, Marcel Anselin

Plot

Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.

A diocesan priest endures isolation and chastisement by the prince of darkness even as his mystical experiences bring him closer to God. Seeing the world shrouded in darkness he agonizes to understand the incompleteness of his visions and why the fallen world has been abandoned by God, even as he struggles fruitlessly to help others overcome the allure of evil.