Synopsis
A monastery in the middle of the Algerian mountains, during the 1990s.
Eight French Cistercian monks live in harmony with the Muslim population.
One day, foreign workers are massacred by a group of Islamic fundamentalists. Panic spreads among the inhabitants. The army offers to protect the monks, but they refuse assistence. Should they leave? Despite the menacing circumstances that increasingly surround them, the monks decide in unison to remain, whatever the cost.
This film is loosely based on the lives of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 up until their kidnapping in 1996.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (20)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Why Not Productions, Arches Films
- Co-production : France 3 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
- French distribution : Mars Films
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Pascal Caucheteux
- Adaptation : Xavier Beauvois
- Screenwriter : Étienne Comar
- Dialogue Writer : Xavier Beauvois
- Director of photography : Caroline Champetier
- Assistant directors : Guillaume Bonnier, Amine Louadni
- Editor : Marie-Julie Maille
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Jacques Ferran
- Costume designer : Marielle Robaut
- Line Producers : Martine Cassinelli, Frantz Richard
- Sound Assistant : Matthieu Weber
- Assistant Operator : Stephen Mack
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Chabot
- Sound Editor : Loïc Prian
- Assistant editor : Julie Duclaux
- Continuity supervisor : Agathe Grau
- Production Designer : Michel Barthélémy
- Sound Mixer : Éric Bonnard
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French, Arabic
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
Box-office & releases
News & awards
News (37)
Selections (33)
Awards (4)
Delegations (4)
Vienna (Viennale) - International Film Festival
Austria, 2010
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