Forbidden Priests

1973 film by Denys de La Patellière

Forbidden Priests

Poster "Pretres interdits"

Directed by| Denys de La Patellière
Written by| François Boyer
Jean-Claude Barreau
Denys de La Patellière
(adaptation & dialogue by)
Screenplay by| François Boyer
Jean-Claude Barreau
Produced by| Georges de Beauregard
René Pignières
Starring| Robert Hossein
Claude Jade
Cinematography| Claude Durand
Edited by| Jacques Fonteray

Production
company

Bela Productions

Distributed by| Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie

Release date

* 22 November 1973 (1973-11-22)

Running time

| 90 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

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

[edit]

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

[edit]

* 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

## External links

[edit]

* Forbidden Priests at IMDb
* Prêtres interdits at notre Cinema

* v
* t
* e

Films directed by Denys de La Patellière

* The Aristocrats (1955)
* The Wages of Sin (1956)
* The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957)
* Retour de manivelle (1957)
* The Possessors (1958)
* Rue des prairies (1959)
* Eyes of Love (1959)
* Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
* Emile's Boat (1962)
* Destination Rome (1963)
* Why Paris? (1964)
* Marco the Magnificent (1964)
* God's Thunder (1965)
* The Upper Hand (1966)
* Father's Trip (1966)
* Black Sun (1966)
* Darling Caroline (1968)
* Le tatoué (1968)
* Death of a Jew (1969)
* Killer (1972)
* Forbidden Priests (1973)
* Histoires de voyous: Le casse des rois mages (1978)
* Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1979)
* Le paria (1985)
* Bonjour maître (1987)
* Paparoff se dédouble (1990)
* L'affaire Salengro (1992)
* Diamond Swords (1992)

This article related to a French film of the 1970s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template