God Needs Men
(1950)
Overview
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the 19th-century Brittany, follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
Director
Jean Delannoy
Writers
Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Henri Queffélec
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Pierre Fresnay
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CinemaSerf
⭐ 7/10February 8, 2024
There's something grittily authentic about this story of life on a remote Breton island in the nineteenth century. We start with an establishing aerial shot that illustrates just how cut off this place was. A rather large hamlet on what is little more than a spit of land, surrounded by the sea. The society is hierarchical, but not in any way civilisation would willingly acknowledge. Indeed there's no longer even a priest as the church has given u… read the rest.
Status
Released
Original Language
FR
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