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Monsignor is a 1982 American drama film directed by Frank Perry about a Roman Catholic priest 's rise through the ranks of the Vatican, during and after World War II.
Oct 22, 1982 · Christopher Reeve stars as a young and ambitious priest who becomes a black marketeer and falls in love with a nun during and after World War II. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this controversial film.
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- Crime, Drama, War
- Frank Perry
- 1982-10-22
Monsignor is a 1982 film that depicts the Vatican as a corrupt and dishonest institution, with a priest (Christopher Reeve) who engages in illegal activities and has an affair with a nun. Roger Ebert criticizes the film for its lack of purpose, direction and coherence, and compares it to Luis Bu–uel's anticlerical broadsides.
Summaries. An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II. John Flaherty is a young and ambitious American priest who arrives in the Papal sovereign city state of the Vatican in 1944 to take his holy orders as a Catholic priest.
Having risen to the rank of Monsignor he travels further down a murky path against his faith by taking a mistress, which ends terribly.
- Frank Perry
- Christopher Reeve
Oct 22, 1982 · Synopsis by Mark Deming. An ambitious priest discovers that honoring the Ten Commandments isn't as easy as he imagined in this drama. Father John Flaherty (Christopher Reeve) is a Catholic priest who was ordained during World War II, and soon found himself forced to fight enemy forces while serving as a chaplain in the Army.
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
