Forbidden Priests is a French film directed by Denys de La Patellière

Denys de La Patellière

Denys de La Patellière is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Nantes.-Filmography as director:* 1955 : Les Aristocrates with Pierre Fresnay...

 in 1973 starring Robert Hossein

Robert Hossein

Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...

 and Claude Jade

Claude Jade

Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade , was a French actress, known for starring as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses , Bed and Board and Love on the Run . Jade acted in theatre, film and television...

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Synopsis

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 years 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 orphelinat and Jean becomes communist.

Cast

• Robert Hossein
  Robert Hossein
  Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...
  
   - Jean Rastaud
• Claude Jade
  Claude Jade
  Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade , was a French actress, known for starring as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses , Bed and Board and Love on the Run . Jade acted in theatre, film and television...
  
   - Françoise Bernardeau
• Claude Piéplu
  Claude Piéplu
  Claude Léon Auguste Piéplu was a French film and television actor.-Filmography:*Shadoks et le Big Blank, Les *Astérix et Obélix contre César *Chapeau bas...
  
   - Father Grégoire Ancely
• Pierre Mondy
  Pierre Mondy
  Pierre Mondy, whose real name was Pierre Cuq, born 10 February 1925 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French actor and director.He began his film career in 1949 and has appeared in over 140 films. In 1960, he received international revcognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz...
  
   - Paul Lacoussade
• Louis Seigner
  Louis Seigner
  -Selected filmography:- External links :...
  
   - Bishop
• Germaine Delbat - Jean's mother
• Michèle Watrin - Françoise's cousin
• Lucienne Legrand - Françoise, mother
• Georges Audoubert - Françoise, father

External links

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