Department of History

From Bruce Beresford, the director of Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies, and Breaker Morant come an epic adventure of the heart and spirit that the critics are comparing to Dances With Wolves. In the rugged 17th century Canadian wilderness, Father Laforgue (Lothaire Bluteau), a young idealistic Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the wilderness on a perious journey to convert the Huron Indians. His Algonquin Indian guides nickname him "Black Robe". His young aide and translator, Daniel (Aden Young), falls in love with Annuka (Sandrine Holt), the beautiful daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested as the expedition faces the elements. Attacked, captured and brutalized by hostile Indians, the traumatic experience challenges everything the young priest believes. Together with his young companions, he escapes to complete his mission and comes to understand the true spirit of the land and the spirit he sought to convert.