Leon Morin, pretre [Leon Morin, Priest]
Paris: Lux Films, 1961. Original French promotional book for the 1961 French film. Based on the 1952 novel by Beatrix Beck. With a small red rubber stamp from a French movie house at the top center of the front wrapper.
A departure for both Melville and Belmondo, both turning from the crime films for which they were best known in order to make a moving adaptation of Beck's novel, a complex story of unrequited love, set during World War II and the Holocaust.
6 pages, saddle stapled, 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Single horizontal fold at the center, likely as issued, else Near Fine.
Criterion Collection 572.
[Book #152704]
Price: $75.00
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