Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
Journal d'un curé de campagne
"A priest of humble origin, lost in the maze of worldiness"
ThumbScore
👍 90%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 95%
(RT: 95%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Claude Laydu as Curé d'Ambricourt
Jean Riveyre as Le Comte
Adrien Borel as Priest of Torcy
Rachel Bérendt as La Comtesse
Nicole Maurey as Miss Louise
Nicole Ladmiral as Chantal
Martine Lemaire as Séraphita Dumontel
Antoine Balpêtré as Dr. Delbende
Is Diary of a Country Priest good?
Yes. 90% audience score, estimated from 291 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 95%.
Overview
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith. Wikipedia ↗
