1 Movie Starring Jacques Lippe

L'oeuvre au noir

L'oeuvre au noir

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-05-13

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Belgium

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

(202 Reviews)

Director:

Andrè Delvaux

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Andrè Delvaux

Marguerite Yourcenar (novel)

Fullplot:

In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zènon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a physician to the poor, establishing a clinic and steam bath. His methods and opinions are outside the mainstream, but he has the protection and friendship of the local Prior. Zènon, an aristocrat with a degree in canon law, lives humbly. He learns of bacchanals under Masonic signs involving monks and women, and he warns those involved. The Prior is dying, and he urges Zènon to flee to England. Zènon burns his writing. Will he leave or will he face ecclesiastical accusers and, perhaps, the stake?

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