Diario de un cura rural

A Catholic version of Taxi Driver, without Travis Bickle's guns. A young, sickly priest arrives in a rural French village, where his asceticism alienates the locals. Bresson's stark, spiritual study of doubt is a landmark of French cinema.

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Robert Bresson directed Diario de un cura rural in 1951. See Robert Bresson's full filmography, where to start with Robert Bresson, or where to go after you've seen everything by Robert Bresson.

Diario de un cura rural was released in 1951 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 115 minutes.