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Monsignor Renard

2000 - 2000

May 1940

27th March 2000
Episode 1
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 coincides with an exodus south by many of the population, the evacuation of a local airfield by the British and the arrival of the Germans, as Marshal Petain announces an armistice.

July 1940

3rd April 2000
Episode 2
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 with Renard, who resists the temptation to collaborate with the invaders. He is arrested for an act of resistance, and his former lover Madeleine is forced to re-examine her attitude towards the Germans.

September 1940

10th April 2000
Episode 3
As the German prosecution of the Jews begins, Renard uses the annual procession of St.Josse to register the disgust at events taking place.

November 1940

17th April 2000
Episode 4
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.
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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.

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John Thaw Image

John Thaw

Monsignor Augustine Renard

Cheryl Campbell Image

Cheryl Campbell

Dominic Monaghan Image

Dominic Monaghan

Etienne Pierre Rollinger

Jimmy Yuill Image

Jimmy Yuill

Barbara Kellerman Image

Barbara Kellerman

Richard Cubison Image

Richard Cubison

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