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Nov 1, 1991 · Powered by JustWatch. `Black Robe" tells the story of the first contacts between the Huron Indians of Quebec and the Jesuit missionaries from France who came to convert them to Catholicism, and ended up delivering them into the hands of their enemies. Those first brave Jesuit priests did not realize, in the mid-17th century, that they were ...
Black Robe is a 1991 historical drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, adapted by Brian Moore from his 1985 novel of the same name. Set in the 17th century, it depicts the adventures of a Jesuit missionary tasked with founding a mission in New France.
- A$11 million
Summaries. In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions. 1634, New France. Nearing the onset of winter, French Jesuit priest Father Laforgue, one of the younger ...
Oct 30, 1991 · This epic story provides the background for Bruce Beresford's "Black Robe," which opens today at the Beekman Theater. "Black Robe" is no over-decorated, pumped-up boy's adventure yarn...
- Bruce Beresford
Synopsis Set in 1634, this film follows the travels of Father LaForgue (Lothaire Bluteau), a Jesuit priest called upon to search for a remote Canadian mission surrounded by Huron settlements ...
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- Bruce Beresford
- R
- Lothaire Bluteau
Plot. In Quebec, a tribe of Algonquian agree in exchange for muskets to guide the "Black Robe" (Father Laforgue) and his 20-year-old French assistant, Daniel Davost, for a few weeks upriver to a spot beyond a set of rapids. There, Father Laforgue travels onward to the Huron village of Ihonatiria [2] where a Jesuit mission is already established.
In Black Robe, Lothaire Bluteau plays Father Laforgue, a priest who has been assigned to serve a remote mission 1500 miles from Quebec. A group of Algonquin Indians have been hired by the religious community to escort him on the long and dangerous journey.
