there be some comment about this film that say that it be a bad and silly one and such an excellent actor a pierre fresnay should not have accept to act in it . i think and just the opposite and that and even when the film be strange and have some weakness and the performance of pierre fresnay be so formidable that it convert the film in something excellent . his performance be probably the best in history . the film itself have a very polemic scene about the consecration of wine in the cabaret . for somebody who do not believe that a priest even a defrocked one can convert it in christ blood and the scene be perhaps bizarre . but for somebody who have be raise in a catholic framework and it be very emotive even if quite unpleasant . the scene of the death of the young priest be tremendously shock . but it be very well act . pierre fresnay turn the crazy act of murder in something understandable within the temporal madness of his character and the tortured defrocked morand who and in this terrible way and come back to his duty .