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Journal d'un curé de campagne = Diary of a country priest / Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC) ; Janus Films ; producers, Léon Carré, Robert Sussfeld ; writer, Robert Bresson ; director, Robert Bresson.
LIBRA DVD 010 777 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection
- The Criterion collection
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Diaries--Drama.
- Diaries.
- Priests--France--Drama.
- Priests.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- France.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Diary of a country priest
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Criterion Collection : Image Entertainment, [2004]
- Language Note:
- French dialogue, English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD ; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- 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.
- Participant:
- Claude Laydu, Léon Arvel, Antoine Balpêtré, Jean Danet, Jeanne Étiévant, André Guibert, Bernard Hubrenne, Nicole Ladmiral, Martine Lemaire.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Léonce-Henri Burel ; editor, Paulette Robert ; original music, Jean-Jacques Grünenwald.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0780027817
- OCLC:
- 56731611
- Publisher Number:
- 037429185520
- DIA080 Criterion Collection
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