Release Date: February 25th, 2011
DVD Release Date: July 5th, 2011
PG-13|2 hr 2 min
Plot Summary
An order of Trappist monks whose members include Christian (Lambert Wilson) and Luc (Michael Lonsdale) live among the Muslim population in a quiet corner of Algeria. As the country is plunged into civil war in the mid-1990s, the men of God must decide whether to stay among the impoverished residents who have been their neighbors, or flee the encroaching fundamentalist terrorists. The situation that unfolds, based on actual events, has tragic consequences.
Cast: Lambert Wilson, Michaël Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin, Loïc Pichon, Xavier Maly, Jean-Marie Frin
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Genres: Drama
Production Co: Canal+, Why Not Productions, Armada Pictures
Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics
