Overview
Genre
DramaRelease Date
February 25, 2011 (Limited)MPAA Rating
RDuration
120 min.Studio
Sony Pictures ClassicsOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Xavier BeauvoisProducer
Etienne Comar, Pascal CaucheteuxScreenwriter
Etienne ComarStarring
- Lambert Wilson
- Michael Lonsdale
- Philippe Laudenbach
- Olivier Rabourdin
- Jacques Herlin
- Loic Pichon
- Xavier Maly
- Jean-Marie Frin
Story
Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. 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.
