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The acclaimed film about the Trappist monks murdered in Algeria had a \u201cmonastic advisor\u201d on set to give the movie the ring of authenticity.<\/p>\n

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Details, from CNS<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cOf Gods and Men,\u201d the Cannes Film Festival grand prize-winning feature now debuting across the country, had a \u201cmonastic adviser\u201d on the set to help faithfully depict the lives of the French monks whose story is at the heart of the movie.<\/p>\n

Henry Quinson, who lived for six years at a Cistercian monastery in France, knew two of the monks portrayed in the film.<\/p>\n

The subject matter is not typical for a movie: the lives of seven Trappist monks in turmoil-ridden Algeria in the mid-1990s. All seven were kidnapped in 1996 and ultimately beheaded.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for me to make a movie that would be cheap \u2014 the kind of movie that would only be about blood,\u201d Quinson told\u00a0Catholic News Service<\/span><\/a> in a Feb. 18 telephone interview from Marseilles, France, where he lives. \u201cIt would be very far away from the spirit of the people I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n

Xavier Beauvois, who directed and co-wrote \u201cOf Gods and Men,\u201d approached Quinson after seeing his memoir on monastic life; Quinson had earlier translated into French an English-language book on the murdered monks.<\/p>\n

Quinson said Beauvois e-mailed him asking, \u201cI need someone to be with me on this movie. \u2026 When it\u2019s written (in the script) \u2018the monks pray,\u2019 how are they dressed? What do they do? Do they sing? I need someone who knows the monastic life from the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quinson, who had been considering making a movie himself on the French Trappists, agreed to help Beauvois.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy little job,\u201d Quinson said, \u201cwas to tell their story, \u2026 be faithful to the brothers, and reach out to as many people as we can.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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