Malvern French Film Centre
English title: Of Gods And Men
Director: Xavier Beauvoir
Certificate: 15
2010
Running time: 2hrs
French with English subtitles
Inspired by real events of 1996, when a group of French Cistercian monks was abducted from their monastery in the Atlas Mountains in northern Algeria and held hostage by Islamic militants during the violent Civil War. It is one of those rare films that has the confidence and integrity to pause and reflect upon issues of conscience, faith and moral values without being sensationalist or superficial.
