Of Gods and Men

Director: Xavier Beauvois

Writer: Xavier Beauvois,Etienne Comar

Countries of origin: France

Language: French, Arabic

Release date: March 25, 2011

Sound mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1

Also known as: Tanrılar ve İnsanlar

"Des hommes et des dieux" is a 122-minute feature film co-produced by French Armada Pictures, Why Not Productions, and France 3 Cinéma. The film is directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson , Alfredde Turris , Sabrina Ouazani , Olivier Rabourdin , Jacques Herring, etc. It was released in France on May 18, 2010.

The film is adapted from the real incident of the murder of several monks in a monastery in Algeria in 1996. It tells the story of eight French Christians who sacrificed their sacred beliefs in the snowy jungle in North Africa .

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By Eduardo 2022-03-25 09:01:19

A Needle, Sewing Clean Water - Xavier Biworth, "Man and God"

[Author: Liu Wei]

　　A simple monastery, located in a secluded place in the mountains of North Africa. Several monks prayed, swept, meditated, and got along well with the local Muslim villagers. They shopped in the market, sold homemade honey, and healed the villagers. They formed a tree-and-bird-like interdependence with each other.

　　However, the turbulent situation outside quickly broke the tranquility of the monastery. The film Man and God presents us with the question of...
By Aryanna 2022-03-23 09:03:06

Thoughts in plain

Very bland films, can't be said to be interesting, but give people a lot of space for thinking.
French films like to delve into themselves, and have a deeper ideological theme than domestic films. As far as the plot is relatively slow and bland, French films belong to small literature and art. Although I saw that I was about to fall asleep at the end, it was still rewarding.
The chant of the church runs through the whole film, the scene is very real, and the chant is sung once a week...
By Everett 2022-03-23 09:03:06

"Man and God"

There is a little realism in the film. Those gods are in contact with civilians, the government, the army, and terrorists; more are wrapped in strong idealism, and chanting replaces all sound effects. It is depicted as poetry and painting, the rigor of interior composition and the handling of characters in the middle ground..., all for the service of form.

Regarding the inner struggles of people in special regions and special times, this film has chosen the most suitable way of...
By Everett 2022-03-23 09:03:06

About frère Christian

Lambert had previously played the French Father Pierre in 1989's Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre (Winter 1954, Father Pierre), for which he was nominated for a Caesar Award. On January 22, 2007, Father Pierre passed away. On the 26th, a state funeral was held at Notre Dame de Paris. Lambert attended the funeral and delivered a speech at the memorial service. Both Hiver 54 and Des hommes et des dieux can be classified as religious themes because of their protagonist status. He also plays the Capuchin...
By Rylan 2022-03-23 09:03:06

They are free and great sons of God

The introduction at the beginning of the film is a sentence from the Bible: You are the sons of God, but you came to this world in the flesh. Those who dedicate their bodies to Jesus and their hearts to the world are working hard to fulfill the mission of the Son of God. But the sudden change brought unprecedented waves to their peaceful and pious life. The fear of death, the struggle for power, and the refutation of right and wrong make confusion shrouded this originally harmonious group....

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By Justice 2023-06-09 23:22:10

Music is great. The movie is...
By Clementine 2023-04-26 23:50:18

The power of the tragedy is so shocking that I didn't have the courage to watch it a second time after two...
By Mae 2022-04-24 07:01:22

Wildflowers do not move in search of sunlight, they are abundant everywhere because of God's...
By Reggie 2022-04-24 07:01:22

I have seen "Man and God": #weekendbroadcast# I once said, "You are gods, all sons of the Most High; yet you will die like the world; you will fall like one of the princes." God , rise up and judge the world, for you will possess all nations. ---Psalm...
By Fay 2022-04-24 07:01:22

It is because of hardship, poverty and death that people believe that God does good and evil, even if he...

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Christian: [Voice-over] Should it ever befall me, and it could happen today, to be a victim of the terrorism swallowing up all foreigners here, I would like my community, my church, my family, to remember that my life was given to God and to this country. That the Unique Master of all life was no stranger to this brutal departure. And that my death is the same as so many other violent ones, consigned to the apathy of oblivion. I've lived enough to know, I am complicit in the evil that, alas, prevails over the world and the evil that will smite me blindly. I could never desire such a death. I could never feel gladdened that these people I love be accused randomly of my murder. I know the contempt felt for people here, indiscriminately. And I know how Islam is distorted by certain Islamism. This country, and Islam, for me are something different. They're a body and a soul. My death, of course, will quickly vindicate those who call me naïve or idealistic, but they must know that I will be freed of a burning curiosity and, God willing, will immerse my gaze in the Father's and contemplate with him his children of Islam as he sees them. This thank you which encompasses my entire life includes you, of course, friends of yesterday and today, and you too, friend of the last minute, who knew not what you were doing. Yes, to you as well I address this thank you and this farewell which you envisaged. May we meet again, happy thieves in Paradise, if it pleases God the Father of us both. Amen. Insha'Allah.
Christian: We are martyrs out of love, out of fidelity. If death overtake us, despite ourselves, because up to the end, up to the end we'll try to avoid it. Our mission here is to be brothers to all. Remember that love is eternal hope. Love endures everything.
Christian: Once they were gone, all we had left to do was live. And the first thing we did was - two hours later - we celebrated the Christmas vigil and mass. It's what we had to do. It's what we did. And we sang the mass. We welcomed that child who was born for us absolutely helpless and already so threatened. Afterwards, we found salvation in undertaking our daily tasks: The kitchen, the garden, the prayers, the bells. Day after day, we had to resist the violence. And day after day, I think each of us discovered that to which Jesus Christ beckons us: It's to be born. Our identities as men go from one birth to another. And from birth to birth, we'll each end up bringing to the world the child of God that we are. The incarnation, for us, is to allow the filial reality of Jesus to embody itself in our humanity. The mystery of incarnation remains what we are going to live. In this way, what we've already lived here takes root as well as what we're going to live in the future.

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