Monsignor Renard Movie Review 1999

Renard (Thaw) is a Catholic priest who returns to his home village, Saint-Josse des Bois, in 1940. The town is filled with Nazis who are using it as an embarkation point and Renard finds himself involved in the local resistance movement even as he draws the attention of the Gestapo and the locals themselves cope with the Germans in their own ways. Filmed at Saint Valery sur Somme on the Picardy coast of France.

Distribution

The Video Collection, PO Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407-2284

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 360 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, France

Screenplay

Russell Lewis, Charles Wood, Stephen Churchett

Cast

John Thaw, Cheryl Campbell, Juliette Caton, Des McAleer, Geoffrey Hutchings, Michael Atwell, Jimmy Yuill, Barbara Kellerman, Dominic Monaghan

Director

Malcolm Mowbray, David Wheatley