Léon Morin, Priest
(1961)
★ 7.1 IMDb · 171 votes
Year: 1961
Runtime: 117 мин
Country: France, Italy
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Жан-Поль Бельмондо, Irène Tunc, Nicole Mirel, Gisèle Grimm, Marco Behar, Marc Eyraud, Monique Hennessy, Edith Loria, Monique Bertho
Plot
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.
In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests 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.