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 curates assurance its all part of Gods grand plan when his loved ones keep coming to terrible harm, and searching solace in the hand-carving of a wooden statue of Christ.
1989
HD
100min
Belgium
Dutch
Roland Verhavert
Matteo Simoni
Christel Domen
Jef Burm
Ronny Waterschoot
Jos van Gorp
Magda Lesage
Sabine De Volder
Erik Goossens
Jacky Morel
peasant
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