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Black Robe
AUSTRALIA · 1991

Black Robe

Bruce Beresford
religious conversion cultural clash colonialism missionary work indigenous peoples
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Synopsis

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.

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