God Needs Men
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
- 6.2
- 1950
- Released
- 1h 40m
Pierre Fresnay
Thomas Gourvennec
Madeleine Robinson
Jeanne Gourvennec
Daniel Gélin
Joseph Le Berre
Andrée Clément
Scholastique Kerneis
Jean Brochard
Abbot Kerhervé
Sylvie
Coise Karbacen
Antoine Balpêtré
Father Gourvennec
Germaine Kerjean
Mrs. Kermeis
Daniel Ivernel
François Guillen
Jean d'Yd
Corentin Gourvennec
Raphaël Patorni
Jules
Marcel Delaître
Monsieur Kerneis
Fernand René
Yves Lannuzel
Albert Michel
Le Bail
René Génin
Yvon's father
Jean Carmet
Yvon
Jérôme Goulven
Brigadier
Cécyl Marcyl
Old woman
Charles Bouillaud
Gendarme
Jean Favre-Bertin
Pierre Moncorbier
Fisherman
Lucienne Bogaert
Anaïs Le Berre
Marcelle Géniat
Mother GourvennecLouise Andrès
(uncredited)Georges Cerf
(uncredited)
Jeanne Herviale
(uncredited)Pierre Latour
(uncredited)Serge Lecointe
(uncredited)Christian Martaguet
(uncredited)Henri Maïk
(uncredited)Pierre Salas
(uncredited)Released
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There's something grittily authentic about this story of life on a remote Breton island in the nineteenth century. We start with an establishing aerial shot that illustrates just how cut off this place was. A rather large hamlet on what is little more than a spit of land, surrounded by the sea. The society is hierarchical, but not in any way civilisation would willingly acknowledge. Indeed there's