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Priest Daens
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Title: Priest Daens

Release Date: 1 Oct 1992

Runtime: 2h 18m

Genre: Drama, History

Director: Dérives Productions, Shooting Star Filmcompany, Favourite Films

Production Companies: Dérives Productions, Shooting Star Filmcompany, Favourite Films

Overview: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.093 (59 votes)

Cast

  • Adolf Daens: Jan Decleir
  • Charles Woeste: Gérard Desarthe
  • Nette Scholliers: Antje De Boeck
  • Jan De Meeter: Michaël Pas
  • Jefke: Karel Baetens
  • Bisschop Stillemans: Julien Schoenaerts
  • Pieter Daens: Wim Meuwissen
  • Louise Daens: Brit Alen
  • Schmitt: Johan Leysen
  • Elizabeth Borremans: Linda van Dyck
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