Des hommes et des dieux / une coproduction Why Not Productions, Armada Films, France 3 Cinema ; un film de Xavier Beauvois.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Beauvois, Xavier, director.

France 3 cinéma (Firm), production company.

Why Not Productions Inc., production company.

Armada Films (Firm), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Cistercian monasteries--Algeria--Tibehirine--Drama.

Cistercian monasteries.

Christianity and other religions--Islam--Drama.

Christianity and other religions.

Monks--Algeria--Tibehirine--Drama.

Monks.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 minutes)

Other Title:

Of gods and men

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Sony Pictures Classics, 2010.

Language Note:

In French and Arabic.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996, Of Gods and Men tells a story of eight French Christian monks who live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps through 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.

Participant:

Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin, Loic Pichon, Xavier Maly, Jean-Marie Frin.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 21, 2017).

Nominated 2001 BAFTA Awards, Best Film not in the English Language

Won 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Cinema Prize of the French National Education System

Won 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize of the Jury

Won 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Nominated 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or

OCLC:

994131156