Directed by:
Xavier BeauvoisCinematography:
Caroline ChampetierCast:
Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Sabrina Ouazani, Abdellah Moundy, Adel Bencherif, Jacques Herlin, Arben Bajraktaraj, Farid Larbi (more)Plots(1)
A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave/ Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay...come what may. This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Lambert Wilson
France
Best movies:
La Dernière Nuit (1981) (TV movie)
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Michael Lonsdale
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Olivier Rabourdin
France
Best movies:
L'Enlèvement (2008)
Welcome (2009)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Sabrina Ouazani
France
Best movies:
The Source (2011)
Games of Love and Chance (2003)
Paris (2008)
Abdellah Moundy
Best movies:
Since Otar Left (2003)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Close to Leo (2002) (TV movie)
Adel Bencherif
Best movies:
A Prophet (2009)
Point Blank (2010)
Paris, I Love You (2006)
Jacques Herlin
France
Best movies:
Welcome (2009)
The Monsters (1963)
Le Marquis s'amuse (1981)
Arben Bajraktaraj
Best movies:
L'Enlèvement (2008)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Sarah's Key (2010)
Farid Larbi
Best movies:
A Prophet (2009)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Free Men (2011)
Olivier Perrier
France
Best movies:
Read My Lips (2001)
Anything for Her (2008)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Philippe Laudenbach
France
Best movies:
L'Affaire Salengro (2009) (TV movie)
A.L.F. (Animal Liberation Front) (2012)
Confidentially Yours (1983)
Abdelhafid Metalsi
France
Best movies:
Munich (2005)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Michou d'Auber (2007)
Jean-Marie Frin
Best movies:
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Capital (2012)
Maigret (1991) (series)
Xavier Maly
Best movies:
La Rumba (1987)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Bandits (1986)
Loïc Pichon
Best movies:
Class Trip (1998)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Bon voyage (2003)