directed by: Xavier Beauvois, year: 2010
actors: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale

Based on the true story of seven Trappist monks at Tibhirine in Algeria during the early 1990s, the film follows Brother Christian and his fellow brothers as they tend their abbey, cherish simple rituals, and choose to stay despite escalating danger. As violence encroaches, faith, friendship, and moral duty are tested in a restrained, compassionate portrait of courage and sacrifice. A meditative, humane drama about witness in the face of terror.

Religious Extremism, Drama, Historical Drama, Biographical Drama, Religious Drama