The French docudrama Of Gods and Men (or Des hommes et des dieux in its native tongue) was one of France’s biggest box office draws in 2010, and is now making a splash internationally, garnering a BAFTA nod and Spirit nomination for their respective foreign film categories.
The film is based on the true story of a group of Cistercian monks in Tibhirine in Algeria.
Trailer and Synopsis courtesy of Apple:
Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though 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.
Of Gods and Men will open in New York and Los Angeles February 25.
Are you looking forward to Of Gods and Men?