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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. Along the way, he involves the Vatican in the black marketeering operations of a Mafia don, and has an affair with a woman in the postulant stage of becoming a nun. He eventually ...
Oct 22, 1982 · Monsignor: Directed by Frank Perry. With Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller. An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II.
Sep 30, 2022 · Monsignor - Trailer 1982. An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the Vatican into shady business during and after World War II. ...more. An ambitious priest seduces a nun and leads the ...
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.
Overview. 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. Frank Perry. Jack-Alain Léger.
Under the sponsorship of the Vatican Secretary of State ( Fernando Rey ), he concocts a plan to finance the bankrupt Vatican by selling fifty thousand cartons of American cigarettes a week to the Mafia-controlled black market. This is obviously a bright young man, destined to rise in the church hierarchy.
Cast. 121 mins More at IMDb TMDb. 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.
