The Suspended Vocation () is a 1978 French drama film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It is a free adaptation of the perverse theological 1950 novel of the same name by Pierre Klossowski.

Plot

The film centers on a Dominican friar named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church.

Cast

• Didier Flamand as Jérôme # 1

• Pascal Bonitzer as Jérôme # 2

• Daniel Gélin as Malagrida

• Édith Scob as Angélique

• Gabriel Gascon as The father-confessor

• Geneviève Mnich as Sister Théophile

• Maurice Bénichou as Member of the Devotion # 1

• Pascal Kané as The member of Devotion # 2

• Alexandre Tamar as Member of Devotion # 3

• Jean Badin as L'ami

• Huguette Faget as The Seller of Statues

• Jean Rougeul as Euthanasien Persienne

• Françoise Vercruyssen as The Woman

• Jean Lescot as The Father-Master # 1

• Marcel Imhoff as The Father-Master # 2

• Daniel Isoppo as The lay brother

• Isidro Romero as The Prior # 1

• Gérard Berner as The Prior # 2

• Éric Burnelli as The Painter Brother

• Jean-Robert Viard as Bishop (as Jean Robert Viard)

• Paul-Eric Shulmann as Child (as Paul-Eroc Schulman)

• Sylvie Herbert as Sister Vincent

• Raoul Guillet as The Superior

• Jean Frapat as The black abbot

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