I Was a Parish Priest

I Was a Parish Priest
Directed by	Rafael Gil
Written by	Vicente Escrivá Ramón D. Faraldo
Produced by	Manuel J. Goyanes
Starring	Claude Laydu Francisco Rabal José Marco Davó
Cinematography	Alfredo Fraile
Edited by	José Antonio Rojo
Music by	Joaquín Rodrigo
Production company	Aspa Producciones Cinematográficas
Distributed by	CIFESA
Release date	30 September 1953
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

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.

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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

v t e Films directed by Rafael Gil
1940s	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)
1950s	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)
1960s	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)
1970s	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)
1980s	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)

v t e Golden Shell
1953–1975	I Was a Parish Priest (1953) Sierra maldita (1954) Days of Love (1955) The Railroad Man (1956) Oh! Sabella (1957) Ewa chce spac (1958) The Nun's Story (1959) Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960) One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Arturo's Island (1962) Mafioso (1963) America America (1964) Golden Queen / Mirage (1965) I Was Happy Here (1966) Two for the Road (1967) The Long Day's Dying (1968) The Rain People (1969) Dead of Summer (1970) Claire's Knee (1971) The Glass House (1972) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Badlands (1974) Furtivos (1975)
1976–2000	Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven (1976) An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977) Alambrista! (1978) Autumn Marathon (1979) The Orchestra Conductor (1980) Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) Demons in the Garden (1982) Entre Nous (1983) Rumble Fish (1984) Yesterday (1985) Half of Heaven (1986) Wedding in Galilee (1987) On the Black Hill (1988) Homer and Eddie / La nación clandestina (1989) Letters from Alou (1990) Butterfly Wings (1991) A Place in the World (1992) The Beginning and the End / Sara (1993) Dias contados (1994) Margaret's Museum (1995) Bwana / Trojan Eddie (1996) The Swindle (1997) Wind with the Gone (1998) What's Life? (1999) The Ruination of Men (2000)
2001–present	A Cab for Three (2001) Mondays in the Sun (2002) Gun-shy (2003) Turtles Can Fly (2004) Something Like Happiness (2005) Half Moon / Mon fils à moi (2006) A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) Pandora's Box (2008) City of Life and Death (2009) Neds (2010) Los pasos dobles (2011) In the House (2012) Bad Hair (2013) Magical Girl (2014) Sparrows (2015) I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016) The Disaster Artist (2017) Between Two Waters (2018) Pacified (2019) Beginning (2020) Blue Moon (2021) The Kings of the World (2022) The Rye Horn (2023)

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