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.
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Synopsis
A priest receives as his first assignment the parish of a mining town, beset by poverty. In this area he will focus all his forces to overcome the resentment accumulated by the miners towards the ecclesiastical profession.
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