Black Robe

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.

Cast

Lothaire Bluteau

as Laforgue

Sandrine Holt

as Annuka

August Schellenberg

as Chomina

Tantoo Cardinal

as Chomina's Wife

Lawrence Bayne

as Neehatin

Aden Young

as Daniel

Billy Two Rivers

as Ougebmat

Wesley Côté

as Oujita

Frank Wilson

as Father Jerome

François Tassé

as Father Bourque

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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 plagu...

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