Diary of a Country Priest

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 Diary of a Country Priest 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.

Diary of a Country Priest was released in 1951 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 115 minutes.