The Suspended Vocation

The Suspended Vocation (La vocation suspendue) 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