Black Robe
AdventureDramaHistory
6.5/10
|CA
|en
|101 min
Release Date: 1991-10-04
Overview - Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
Production Companies
Samson ProductionsFirst Choice Canadian Communication CorporationAlliance FilmsAustralian Film Finance Corporation
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
Regardless of the quality of the production, films like this make me want to throw a brick at the screen! An established culture of Huron living in tandem with nature, turf-warring with their Iroquois neighbours and enduring a largely substance existence are introduced to that most ultimate of plagues. Christianity! It's the eponymous "Laforgue" (Lothaire Bluteau) who is charged by his fellow Jesu...
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