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Forbidden Priests

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Forbidden Priests
Poster "Pretres interdits"
Directed byDenys de La Patellière
Written byFrançois Boyer
Jean-Claude Barreau
Denys de La Patellière
(adaptation & dialogue by)
Screenplay byFrançois Boyer
Jean-Claude Barreau
Produced byGeorges de Beauregard
René Pignières
StarringRobert Hossein
Claude Jade
CinematographyClaude Durand
Edited byJacques Fonteray
Production
company
Bela Productions
Distributed bySociété Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Release date
  • 22 November 1973 (1973-11-22)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Forbidden Priests (Prêtres interdits) is a 1973 French drama romance war film directed by Denys de La Patellière and starring Robert Hossein and Claude Jade.

Synopsis

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This French melodrama tells the tragic story of a rare couple: Priest Jean (Robert Hossein), who falls in love with a young woman, the 17-year-old girl Françoise (Claude Jade was 25 during the shooting), has relations with her, and gets her pregnant. That happens during World War II. Some years later Françoise waits for her majority to get her child out from the orphanage and Jean becomes a communist.

Cast

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  • Robert Hossein as L'abbé Jean Rastaud
  • Claude Jade as Françoise Bernardeau
  • Pierre Mondy as Paul Lacoussade
  • Claude Piéplu as L'abbé Grégoire Ancely
  • Louis Seigner as L'évêque
  • Germaine Delbat as La mère de Jean
  • Georges Audoubert as Le père de Françoise
  • Lucienne Legrand as Madame Bernardeau
  • Michèle Watrin as La cousine de Françoise
  • Fabrice Mouchel as Le petit François
  • Guy Di Rigo as Le nouveau maire
  • Yves Barsacq as Le favori
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