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Black Robe is a Australien film of genre Drama directed by Bruce Beresford released in USA on 4 october 1991 with Lothaire Bluteau
Black Robe (1991)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 october 1991
Length 1h41
Directed by Bruce Beresford
OriginAustralie
Themes Films about religion
Rating70%
Black Robe is a 1991 film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay was written by Irish Canadian author Brian Moore, who adapted it from his novel of the same name.
The film's main character, Father LaForgue, is played by Lothaire Bluteau, with other cast members including Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, Tantoo Cardinal, August Schellenberg, Gordon Tootoosis and Raoul Trujillo. It was the first official co-production between a Canadian film team and an Australian one. It was shot entirely in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Synopsis
Set in New France in 1634 (in the period of conflicts known as the Beaver Wars), the film begins in the settlement that will one day become Quebec City. Jesuit missionaries are trying to encourage the local Algonquin Indians to embrace Christianity, with thus far only limited results. Samuel de Champlain, founder of the settlement, sends Father LaForgue, a young Jesuit priest, to find a distant Catholic mission in a Huron village.Actors
Lothaire Bluteau
(Laforgue)
Aden Young
(Daniel)
Sandrine Holt
(Annuka)
Tantoo Cardinal
(Chomina's Wife)
Gordon Tootoosis
(Old Aenons)
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