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The Suspended Vocation

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The Suspended Vocation
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The Suspended Vocation (French: La vocation suspendue) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It is a free adaptation of the perverse theological 1950 novel of the same name by Pierre Klossowski.[1]

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Plot

The film centers on a Dominican friar named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church.

Cast

  • Didier Flamand as Jérôme # 1
  • Pascal Bonitzer as Jérôme # 2
  • Daniel Gélin as Malagrida
  • Édith Scob as Angélique
  • Gabriel Gascon as The father-confessor
  • Geneviève Mnich as Sister Théophile
  • Maurice Bénichou as Member of the Devotion # 1
  • Pascal Kané as The member of Devotion # 2
  • Alexandre Tamar as Member of Devotion # 3
  • Jean Badin as L'ami
  • Huguette Faget as The Seller of Statues
  • Jean Rougeul as Euthanasien Persienne
  • Françoise Vercruyssen as The Woman
  • Jean Lescot as The Father-Master # 1
  • Marcel Imhoff as The Father-Master # 2
  • Daniel Isoppo as The lay brother
  • Isidro Romero as The Prior # 1
  • Gérard Berner as The Prior # 2
  • Éric Burnelli as The Painter Brother
  • Jean-Robert Viard as Bishop (as Jean Robert Viard)
  • Paul-Eric Shulmann as Child (as Paul-Eroc Schulman)
  • Sylvie Herbert as Sister Vincent
  • Raoul Guillet as The Superior
  • Jean Frapat as The black abbot
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