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Under the Sun of Satan

Original title: Sous le soleil de Satan
  • 1987
  • TV-MA
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
3.9K
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Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
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A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.A priest stuck in a rural congregation and burdened with his overwrought spirituality, finds purpose in a troubled woman accused of murder.

  • Director
    • Maurice Pialat
  • Writers
    • Georges Bernanos
    • Sylvie Pialat
    • Maurice Pialat
  • Stars
    • Gérard Depardieu
    • Sandrine Bonnaire
    • Maurice Pialat
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    3.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Maurice Pialat
    • Writers
      • Georges Bernanos
      • Sylvie Pialat
      • Maurice Pialat
    • Stars
      • Gérard Depardieu
      • Sandrine Bonnaire
      • Maurice Pialat
    • 16User reviews
    • 38Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    • Donissan
    Sandrine Bonnaire
    Sandrine Bonnaire
    • Mouchette
    Maurice Pialat
    Maurice Pialat
    • Menou-Segrais
    Alain Artur
    • Cadignan
    Yann Dedet
    • Gallet
    Brigitte Legendre
    • La mère de Mouchette
    Jean-Claude Bourlat
    • Malorthy
    Jean-Christophe Bouvet
    Jean-Christophe Bouvet
    • Le maquignon
    Philippe Pallut
    • Le carrier
    Marcel Anselin
    • Mgr Gerbier
    Yvette Lavogez
    • Marthe
    Pierre D'Hoffelize
    • Havret
    • (as Pierre d'Hoffelize)
    Corinne Bourdon
    • La mère de l'enfant
    Thierry Der'ven
    • Sabroux
    Marie-Antoinette Lorge
    • Estelle
    Bernard De Gouy
    • Mr. et Mme de Wamin
    • (as Bernard et Yolande de Gouy)
    Yolene De Gouy
    • Mr. et Mme de Wamin
    • (as Bernard et Yolande de Gouy)
    Claudine Gauthier
    • Une fidèle
    • Director
      • Maurice Pialat
    • Writers
      • Georges Bernanos
      • Sylvie Pialat
      • Maurice Pialat
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      When the movie was announced as the winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, with the jury declaring that it was an unanimous vote, the audience, who expected Wings of Desire (1987) to win, booed when the director Maurice Pialat was on his way to the stage to receive the award. Pialat's response to this was to raise his fist, replying: "If you don't like me, I don't like you either".
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      Donissan: With you, everything looks easy. Alone, I'm useless. I'm like the zero, only useful next to other numbers. Priests are so miserable. They waste their lives seeing God being ignored. People make jokes on us. We're like those walls where people write obscenities.

      Menou-Segrais: You're tired.

      Donissan: Tired? I'm not tired. Tired is a bad thought.

      Menou-Segrais: Suspend your visits.

      Donissan: Those visits do more harm than good. In the beginning, I didn't know evil. I learned it from the mouths of the sinners.

      Menou-Segrais: No one knows better than a priest about the terrible monotony of sin.

      Donissan: I can't speak to them. I can't only make absolutions and feel sorry.

      Menou-Segrais: If one absolution in thirty was worthy, the world would be brief.

    • Connections
      Featured in One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
    • Soundtracks
      Intermezzo de la Symphonie No. 1
      Music by Henri Dutilleux

      Conducted by Serge Baudo

    User reviews16

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    Bernanos and Pialat

    Bernanos and Pialat. a meeting who becomes mixture of nuances from the both universes. a film for readers in more measure because it seems be a kind of labyrinth. a film for Maurice Pialat fans because his mark is key of strange, almost confuse work. a film about faith, sin and Catholicism. with the shadows imposed by a great French writer and with two actors - Bonnaire and Depardieu - who reveals the delicacy and darkness of a circle without common rules.Pialat himself does a special role. result - almost a poem. a film as a question. that fact does it not the most inspired choice for many. but it may not be reduced as few beautiful scenes or at good acting. so, it is an invitation to discover the book for understand the bitter , cold sense of story.
    • Vincentiu
    • May 25, 2014
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    • Release date
      • February 10, 1989 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Flach Film (France)
      • Gaumont (France)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Die Sonne Satans
    • Filming locations
      • Montreuil-sur-mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
    • Production companies
      • Erato Films
      • Films A2
      • Flach Film
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $68,765
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,987
      • Jan 22, 1989
    • Gross worldwide
      • $69,688
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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