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Inspiring true story follows the epic life of Father Damien (Wenham), a legendary Belgian priest who dedicated his life (quite literally) to the care and spiritual guidance of a doomed Hawaiian leper colony during the late 1800s. Faced with appallingly daunting conditions--symptoms ignored, food stolen from the sick, the weak forced into slavery, diseased girls forced into prostitution--the priest supported himself through his sense of justice and his unwavering faith. A counterpart of other beneficent luminaries such as Mother Theresa and Gandhi, Damien's story speaks of the triumph of the human and the indomitable force of one man's will to do what is morally and spiritually right in a beautiful, alien world. Spectacular scenery and panoramic Hawaiian vistas add a particularly aesthetic pleasure to the story. Screenplay by John Briley, the scribe responsible for GANDHI.Product Identifiers
EAN5014293114752
eBay Product ID (ePID)3957126
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Film/TV TitleMolokai: the Forbidden Island
ActorLeo Mckern, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Pas, David Wenham, Alice Krige, Derek Jacobi, Peter O'Toole, Aden Young, Thom Hoffman, Sam Neill
DirectorPaul Cox
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
Release Year2001
Run Time117 Mins
GenreDrama
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CertificatePG
Number of Discs1
Movie/TV TitleMolokai: The Forbidden Island