Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

the young curate of ambricourt, in artois, despite the good will and sincere desire to convey to his faithful the purity of his uncompromising and ascetic vision of the world supported by the strong tension of his own religious certainties, attracts the hostility of his hypocrites parishioners and their own superiors. suffering from stomach cancer, he will go to die at the home of a priest who has renounced his habit.