Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothersWhen a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group fear sweeps though the region The army offers them protection but the monks refuse Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay come what mayThis film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996Actors Lambert Wilson Michael Lonsdale Olivier Rabourdin Philippe Laudenbach Jacques Herlin Loïc Pichon Xavier Maly Jean-Marie Frin Abdelhafid Metalsi Sabrina Ouazani Abdellah Moundy Olivier Perrier Farid Larbi Adel Bencherif & BenhaïssDirector Xavier BeauvoisCertificate 15 years and overYear 2010Languages French ; ArabicSubtitles EnglishDuration 2 hours and 2 minutes (approx)Region Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players