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)VOD (3)
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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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Religious film, but not primarily about believing, but about how it can turn out when two faiths collide. As if there was no possibility for one to win, but it's not about faith, it's about how people behave. Some are able to forgive, others are not. However, the film didn't manage to touch me as I had hoped.
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