Forbidden Priests

• Robert Hossein Jean Rastaud
• Claude Jade: Françoise Bernardeau
• Pierre Mondy: Paul Lacoussade
• Claude Piéplu: Grégoire Ancely
• Louis Seigner: Bishop
• Germaine Delbat: Jeans mother
• Lucienne Legrand: Françoises mother
• Georges Audubert: Françoises father
• Michèle Watrin: Françoises cousin

The Abbé and love (Original Title: Prêtres interdits ) is a French film by Denys de La Patellière from 1973 The film is based on memories of the authors Denys de La Patellière and François Boyer.. The film had in the GDR on 18 July 1986 at DFF and in the Federal Republic on 16 December 1993 on ZDF television premiere.

Action

The young Parisian Françoise in love in 1936 during the holiday cottages in the Catholic priest Jean. After she reveals to him her feelings in the confessional, the two resistors are all in spite of a couple. Jeans colleague Ancely wants Françoise returned to Paris, but she remains. As Françoise expecting a child, Jean is suspended by the bishop for an offense against celibacy. Françoise is the child after birth in an orphanage. The years go by: Françoise has now her little son François to himself. When she wants to meet Jean friends, Françoise is killed in an air raid, the child is awarded to their parents. Jean joins the Resistance and eventually shot as a communist by fascists.

1970, a new bishop is confronted with a similar case. His decision regarding the suspension of the priest - now have more than 20 years, the society is changing - is left open.

Reviews

" A boulevard excessively simplistic melodrama, which comes with a didactic undertone and thereby entangled in a variety of issues; the problem of celibacy is insufficiently absorbed. "