Daens

Release Date:

Feb 23, 1992

Running Time:

2:14

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Stijn Coninx

Cast:

Jan Decleir	Priester Daens
Gérard Desarthe	Charles Woeste
Antje de Boeck	Nette Scholliers
Michael Pas	Jan De Meeter
Johan Leysen	Schmitt
Idwig Stephane	Eugene Borremans
Linda Van Dijck
Wim Meuwissen	Pieter Daens

Producers:

Hans Pos

Writers:

Francoise Chevallier, Stijn Coninx

Language:

French

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Romero

Monsieur Vincent

Rosetta

In this biopic, Catholic priest Adolf Daens arrives in the small Belgian village of Aaist in the 1890s and is appalled by widespread economic and sexual exploitation of the women and children working in the textile factories. After his newspaper editorials condemning the town's labor conditions anger both the factory bosses and his church superiors, Daens founds the Christian Democrats, a new alternative to Socialist agitation, to fight for worker's rights.

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