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Directed by
  
Rafael Gil

Music by
  
Joaquín Rodrigo

Initial release
  
1953

Music director
  
Joaquín Rodrigo

Distributed by
  
Cifesa

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Produced by
  
Manuel J. Goyanes

Cinematography
  
Alfredo Fraile

Director
  
Rafael Gil

Costume design
  
Humberto Cornejo

Written by
  
Vicente Escrivá Ramón D. Faraldo

Starring
  
Claude Laydu Francisco Rabal José Marco Davó

Cast
  
Francisco Rabal, Claude Laydu, José Marco Davó

Similar
  
Diary of a Country Priest, The Spirit of the Beehive, The Crime of Father Amaro, Half of Heaven, Cradle Song

I Was a Parish Priest or God's War (Spanish:La guerra de Dios) is a 1953 Spanish drama film directed by Rafael Gil and starring Claude Laydu, Francisco Rabal and José Marco Davó. It was awarded the Gran Premio at the first ever San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was also shown at the Venice Film Festival where it was awarded the Bronze Lion.

It portrays the efforts of a young Priest sent to a poor mining village in the early 1930s.

Cast

  • Claude Laydu as P. Andrés Mendoza
  • Francisco Rabal as Martín
  • José Marco Davó as Don César
  • Fernando Sancho as Barrona
  • Gérard Tichy as El Negro
  • Alberto Romea
  • Carmen Rodríguez
  • Ricardo Calvo
  • Julia Caba Alba as Hermana de D. César
  • Félix Dafauce
  • Milagros Leal
  • Mariano Azaña as Fermín, el cartero
  • José Sepúlveda
  • Manuel Kayser
  • Arturo Marín
  • José Manuel Martín
  • José Miguel Rupert
  • Félix Briones
  • María Eugenia Escrivá as Margarita
  • Jaime Blanch as Daniel
  • Carlos Acevedo as Niño
  • Juan José Vidal as Niño
  • References

    I Was a Parish Priest Wikipedia