God Needs Men

Movie19501sa 40dkstar6.5(6)trending_up1
Drama
Director:Jean Delannoy

The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the 19th-century Brittany, follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.

Details

Original TitleDieu a besoin des hommes
StatusReleased
Release DateOctober 3, 1950
Release Dates
Belgium:
Theatrical - Mar 2, 1951
Germany:
Theatrical - Jun 17, 1951
Theatrical - Apr 10, 1952
Denmark:
Theatrical - Mar 15, 1951
Finland:
Theatrical - Mar 4, 1955
France:
Theatrical - Oct 3, 1950
Runtime1sa 40dk
000
Origin CountryFrance
Original LanguageFrench
Spoken LanguagesFrançais

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CinemaSerf7/10

There's something grittily authentic about this story of life on a remote Breton island in the nineteenth century. We start with an establishing aerial shot that illustrates just how cut off this place was. A rather large hamlet on what is little more than a spit of land, surrounded by the sea. The society is hierarchical, but not in any way civilisation would willingly acknowledge. Indeed there's…

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