Boerenpsalm

Boerenpsalm
  • Release date: 16 Mar 1989
  • Release year: 1989
  • Runtime: 100 minutes
  • Country: Belgium
  • Keywords: farmer, wood carving, unplanned pregnancy, mourning, male nudity, fatherhood, country life, based on novel
Plot:
This Flemish heimat-movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans, the title of which translates as "farmers psalm", is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a god-fearing peasant in a pre-war Belgian village, who has a hard time accepting the curate's assurance it's all part of God's grand plan when his loved ones keep coming to terrible harm, and searching solace in the hand-carving of a wooden statue of Christ.
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