I Was a Parish Priest
1953 film by Rafael Gil
- Vicente Escrivá
- Ramón D. Faraldo
- Claude Laydu
- Francisco Rabal
- José Marco Davó
Production
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Aspa Producciones Cinematográficas
Release date
- 30 September 1953 (1953-09-30)
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I Was a Parish Priest or God's War (Spanish: La guerra de Dios) is a 1953 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Claude Laydu, Francisco Rabal and José Marco Davó.[1] It was awarded the Gran Premio at the first ever San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was also shown at the Venice Film Festival where it was awarded the Bronze Lion.
It portrays the efforts of a young Priest sent to a poor mining village in the early 1930s.
Synopsis
A priest receives as his first assignment the parish of a mining town, beset by poverty. In this area he will focus all his forces to overcome the resentment accumulated by the miners towards the ecclesiastical profession.
Cast
- Claude Laydu as P. Andrés Mendoza
- Francisco Rabal as Martín
- José Marco Davó as Don César
- Fernando Sancho as Barrona
- Gérard Tichy as El Negro
- Alberto Romea
- Carmen Rodríguez
- Ricardo Calvo
- Julia Caba Alba as Hermana de D. César
- Félix Dafauce
- Milagros Leal
- Mariano Azaña as Fermín, el cartero
- José Sepúlveda
- Manuel Kayser
- Arturo Marín
- José Manuel Martín
- José Miguel Rupert
- Félix Briones
- María Eugenia Escrivá as Margarita
- Jaime Blanch as Daniel
- Carlos Acevedo as Niño
- Juan José Vidal as Niño
References
- ^ Bentley p.121
Bibliography
- Bentley, Bernard P. E. (2008). A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85566-176-9.
External links
- I Was a Parish Priest at IMDb
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Films directed by Rafael Gil
- The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (1942)
- Journey to Nowhere (1942)
- Traces of Light (1943)
- Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree (1943)
- Lessons in Good Love (1944)
- The Nail (1944)
- Thirsty Land (1945)
- The Phantom and Dona Juanita (1945)
- The Prodigal Woman (1946)
- The Holy Crown (1947)
- Don Quixote (1947)
- The Faith (1947)
- Mare Nostrum (1948)
- The Sunless Street (1948)
- Just Any Woman (1949)
- Adventures of Juan Lucas (1949)
- Saturday Night (1950)
- Apollo Theatre (1950)
- The Great Galeoto (1951)
- Our Lady of Fatima (1951)
- The Song of Sister Maria (1952)
- From Madrid to Heaven (1952)
- I Was a Parish Priest (1953)
- He Died Fifteen Years Ago (1954)
- Judas' Kiss (1954)
- The Other Life of Captain Contreras (1955)
- The Cock Crow (1955)
- The Big Lie (1956)
- Miracle of the White Suit (1956)
- Let's Make the Impossible! (1958)
- Luxury Cabin (1959)
- College Boarding House (1959)
- Litri and His Shadow (1960)
- Darling (1961)
- Green Harvest (1961)
- Rogelia (1962)
- Queen of the Chantecler (1962)
- You and Me Are Three (1962)
- The Blackmailers (1963)
- Pedrito de Andía's New Life (1965)
- Currito of the Cross (1965)
- Samba (1965)
- Road to Rocío (1966)
- He's My Man! (1966)
- Another's Wife (1967)
- Fruit of Temptation (1968)
- The Sailor with Golden Fists (1968)
- A Decent Adultery (1969)
- Blood in the Bullring (1969)
- The Locket (1970)
- The Man Who Wanted to Kill Himself (1970)
- The Green Envelope (1971)
- The Doubt (1972)
- Nothing Less Than a Real Man (1972)
- The Guerrilla (1973)
- The King is the Best Mayor (1974)
- The Good Days Lost (1975)
- Forget the Drums (1975)
- Death's Newlyweds (1975)
- The Legion Like Women (1976)
- Two Men and Two Women Amongst Them (1977)
- Father Cami's Wedding (1979)
- Spoiled Children (1980)
- And in the Third Year, He Rose Again (1980)
- Old Shirt to New Jacket (1982)
- The Autonomines (1984)
- The Cheerful Colsada Girls (1984)
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