The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to baptize her and chooses priest Léon Morin to do so. After spending some time with him, the relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo as Léon Morin
Emmanuelle Riva as Barny
Irène Tunc as Christine Sangredin
Nicole Mirel as Sabine Levy
Gisèle Grimm as Lucienne
Marco Behar as Edelman
Marc Eyraud as Anton
Monique Hennessy as Arlette
Edith Loria as Danielle Holdenberg
Monique Bertho as Marion
Nina Grégoire as
Simone Vannier as Secretary
Lucienne Marchand as Secretary
Nelly Pitorre as Secretary
Ernest Varial as Director
Chantal Gozzi as Young France
Patricia Gozzi as Old France
Marielle Gozzi as Adult France
Cédric Grant as American Soldier
George Lambert as American Soldier
Gérard Buhr as Gunther
Howard Vernon as Colonel
Renée Liques as
Volker Schlöndorff as German Soldier (uncredited)
Claude Achard as (uncredited)
Adeline Aucoc as Old Lady (uncredited)
Maurice Auzel as Man in St Bernard Church (uncredited)
André Badin as (uncredited)
Madeleine Ganne as Betty (uncredited)
Louis Saintève as Man (uncredited)
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