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)
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A religious film, which is not primarily about the belief of a person, but about what can happen when two faiths collide. It's as if there is no possibility of one winning, but it's not about beliefs, it's about how people behave. Some can forgive, others cannot. Even so, the film failed to impact me as I had hoped.
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