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Far from Men ( French: Loin des hommes) is a 2014 French drama film directed by David Oelhoffen. Set in French Colonial Algeria, the narrative follows Daru, a reclusive, pacifist, Algerian-born French teacher of Spanish descent ( Viggo Mortensen) who is also a war veteran, tasked with delivering Mohammad, a docile Algerian murder suspect ( Reda ...
Apr 14, 2015 · With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek, Vincent Martin. Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas mountains. Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder.
May 1, 2015 · Far From Men. Albert Camus ’ short story, “ The Guest ,” rather resembles Ernest Hemingway ’s “The Killers” in that it uses an almost anecdotal storyline to illuminate major—hell, one might even say “existential”—themes. Camus’ work has only three characters: a police officer, his prisoner, and a schoolteacher the police ...
Jun 7, 2015 · The year is 1954, the war is beginning and village schoolteacher Daru (Mortensen), an ex-French Army soldier, is caught in the crossfire. Born in Algeria but Spanish by lineage, he’s a man out ...
In 1950s Algeria, a schoolteacher (Viggo Mortensen) agrees to deliver an admitted murderer (Reda Kateb) to a French court for trial.
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Apr 30, 2015 · In “Far From Men,” Viggo Mortensen, his sharply planed face weathered and solemn, plays a man who looks as if he were quarried right out of the hard red-rock earth. He plays Daru, a teacher who...
Aug 23, 2014 · In the midst of an icy winter, Daru, the reclusive teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder. Pursued by horsemen seeking summary justice and vengeful settlers, the two men ...
