---
title: 'Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Philippe Agostini'
released: '1960-06-10'
runtime_minutes: 112
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/dialogue-with-the-carmelites-1960'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052737/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)

1960 · 112 min · Drama · France, Italy

Original title: Le Dialogue des carmélites

## Synopsis

Dialogue with the Carmelites is a 1960 French-Italian historical drama film written and directed by Raymond Léopold Bruckberger and Philippe Agostini and starring Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Madeleine Renaud, Pascale Audret, Pierre Brasseur and Jean-Louis Barrault. It is based upon the play by Georges Bernanos, which in turn was adapted from the novella The Song at the Scaffold by Gertrud von Le Fort. It's the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who were guillotined in Paris in 1794 in the waning days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, after refusing to renounce their vocation.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Philippe Agostini](https://cinepixo.com/people/philippe-agostini), [Raymond Léopold Bruckberger](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-leopold-bruckberger)
- **Screenplay:** [Philippe Agostini](https://cinepixo.com/people/philippe-agostini)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jean Françaix](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-francaix)
- **Producer:** [Jules Borkon](https://cinepixo.com/people/jules-borkon)
- **Director of Photography:** [André Bac](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-bac)
- **Editor:** [Gilbert Natot](https://cinepixo.com/people/gilbert-natot)

## Cast

- [Lucien Raimbourg](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucien-raimbourg) as le commissaire-adjoint
- [Paula Dehelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/paula-dehelly) as sœur Catherine
- [Jeanne Moreau](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeanne-moreau) as mère Marie de l'Incarnation
- [Pascale Audret](https://cinepixo.com/people/pascale-audret) as Blanche de la Force
- [Claire Olivier](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-olivier) as une carmélite
- [Dominique Zardi](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominique-zardi)
- [Yvette Etiévant](https://cinepixo.com/people/yvette-etievant) as sœur Lucie, la tourière
- [Claude Laydu](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-laydu) as le chevalier de la Force
- [Alida Valli](https://cinepixo.com/people/alida-valli) as Thérèse de Saint-Augustin
- [Hélène Vallier](https://cinepixo.com/people/helene-vallier) as sœur Agathe
- [Pascal Mazzotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/pascal-mazzotti)
- [Anouk Ferjac](https://cinepixo.com/people/anouk-ferjac) as sœur Gabrielle
- [Jean-Louis Barrault](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-louis-barrault) as le mime
- [Franca Bettoia](https://cinepixo.com/people/franca-bettoia) as une carmélite
- [Albert Rémy](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-remy) as un sans-culotte

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