Claude Laydu
March 10, 1927 · 99 years old
Claude Laydu ([klod lɛjdy]; 10 March 1927 – 29 July 2011) was a Belgian-born Swiss actor on stage and in films. He was renowned for his performance in his film debut in the role of the young priest in Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1951), which has been described as one of the greatest…
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Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · 1h 35m · Movie
A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.
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We Are All Murderers
1952 · 1h 55m · Movie
The problem of the reasonableness of capital punishment.
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Le dialogue des Carmélites
1960 · 1h 52m · Movie
This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.
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