Directed by Christian-Jaque
Cast: Renee Faure, Lucien Coedel, Louis Salou, Maria Casares, Gerard Philipe
Runtime: 170 min
Country: France / Italy, 1948

Stendhal wrote two major works, The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. In the screen adaptations, Gerard Philipe played the leading male roles.

Here he is a young Archbishop who falls in love and wishes to break his vows to the church. His aunt, secretly in love with her nephew, will stop at nothing to further his religious career.

The film paints a wonderful portrait of Italian court life during the early 1800's. It was a time of intrigue, ambition, duels and passionate crimes; an era of romantic love where honor and virtue were worth dying for.