Molokai : the story of "Father Damien" / Jos Stelling Films ; produced by Tharsi Vanhuysse, Grietje Lammertyn ; screenplay by John Briley ; directed by Paul Cox.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: Cat4714D | ERA FilmsPublication details: [Place of publication not identified] : ERA Films/CVBA Damien, ©1999.Description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 3 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1563647141
- 9781563647147
- Director of photography, Nino Martinetti ; editors, John Scott, Ludo Troch, Kristina Hamilton ; music, Paul Grabowski.
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA MOLOKAI | Available | 33111009964335 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to spend three months working in a colony for victims of leprosy on the island of Molokai. When he arrives, he discovers the lepers have been herded to a barely inhabitable part of the island where they're treated like animals. Damien is shocked, and makes it his crusade to improve the lives of the lepers, planting trees to help buffer the island's strong winds and building huts to house the sicker members of the tribe. Damien also concerns himself with their spiritual needs, restoring a sense of dignity and self-respect among the diseased and urging them away from drinking, sex, and other sinful behavior. At first, Damien's pleas to the mainland for medicine, supplies, and medical help fall on deaf ears, but soon the press picks up on Damien's story -- which only angers the Hawaiian government, who would prefer the plight of the lepers be forgotten. Damien is destined to spend the last years of his life on Molokai when he contacts the disease himself, working to ease the pain of his fellow victims to his last breath. Father Damien boasts a star-studded supporting cast, including Sam Neill, Peter O'Toole, Leo McKern, Kris Kristofferson, and Derek Jacobi. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Drama about a Catholic priest who went to the island in Hawaii where the lepers were exiled - Molokai. There among the outcasts he built a community and gave them dignity. He eventually contracted the disease and died from it.
David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Chris Haywood, Derek Jacobi, Jan Decleir, Keanu Kapuni-Szasz, Alice Krige, Kris Kristofferson, Leo McKern, Sam Neill, Peter O'Toole, Dirk Roofthooft, Tom Wilkinson, Aden Young.
Director of photography, Nino Martinetti ; editors, John Scott, Ludo Troch, Kristina Hamilton ; music, Paul Grabowski.
DVD.
Originally issued as a motion picture in 1999.
Based on the biography by Hilde Eynikel.