Black Robe [videorecording] / Samuel Goldwyn Company ; Alliance Communications & Samson Productions present a Robert Lantos production ; Telefilm Canada ; First Choice Canadian Communications Corporation ; screenplay, Brian Moore ; produced by Robert Lantos, Stéphane Reichel, Sue Milliken ; directed by Bruce Beresford.
Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, Tantoo Cardinal, Frank Wilson, Billy Two Rivers, August Schellenberg. Based on the novel: Black Robe / by Brian Moore. Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.
Summary:
In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young and idealistic Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as the expedition faces the elements and hostile Indians.
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