Series · 2000
Monsignor Renard
The series
Monsignor Renard was a four-part ITV television drama set in occupied France during World War II. It starred John Thaw as Monsignor Augustine Renard, a French priest who is drawn into the Resistance movement. The series was later shown in the U.S. as part of Masterpiece Theatre.
Episodes
Season 1 · 4 episodes · 2000
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Episode 127 Mar 20004h 55m
May 1940
Augustin 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 appointed parish priest to St.Josse des Bois but his arrival coinc…
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Episode 23 Apr 20004h 55m
July 1940
The 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 his jackbooted minions. A battle of wills soon develops wi…
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Episode 310 Apr 20004h 55m
September 1940
As the German prosecution of the Jews begins, Renard uses the annual procession of St.Josse to register the disgust at events taking place.
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Episode 417 Apr 20004h 55m
November 1940
Renard leads the townsfolk in an open snub to the Germans, while Etienne incurs the nazis' anger with a foolhardy and premature show of resistance.
Cast
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