Monsignor Renard
Twenty years after taking an acrimonious leave of his family and friends in order to join the Roman church, Monsignor Augustine Renard returns to his home village as parish priest. World War II is well under way, and Nazi occupation is imminent. In addition to reassuring the locals, Renard must also attempt to repair his relationship with estranged brother Yves, who resents his sibling having escaped the responsibility of running the family business.
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Twenty years after taking an acrimonious leave of his family and friends in order to join the Roman church, Monsignor Augustine Renard returns to his home village as parish priest. World War II is well under way, and Nazi occupation is imminent. In addition to reassuring the locals, Renard must also attempt to repair his relationship with estranged brother Yves, who resents his sibling having escaped the responsibility of running the family business.
- Ep 1
1.May 1940
27-03-20004h 55mAugustin Renard, a decorated war hero in the First World War, left his Picardy hometown in 1920 and went off against his family's wishes to become a priest. Now he has been appoint...
- Ep 2
2.July 1940
03-04-20004h 55mThe folk of St.Josse prepare to celebrate Bastille Day, but liberty, equality and fraternity are in short supply when Gestapo Officer Rudi Brandt descends on the town and unleashes...
- Ep 3
3.September 1940
10-04-20004h 55mAs the German prosecution of the Jews begins, Renard uses the annual procession of St.Josse to register the disgust at events taking place.
- Ep 4
4.November 1940
17-04-20004h 55mRenard leads the townsfolk in an open snub to the Germans, while Etienne incurs the nazis' anger with a foolhardy and premature show of resistance.
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