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The Great Heart

The Great Heart

6.6/ 10

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10

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1938

Release Year

11 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

This short film tells the true story of the heroic sacrifice of Father Damien, the Belgian priest who suffered a living death in order to bring hope and God's comfort to the lepers confined on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

Keywords

self sacrifice
hawaii
leprosy
biography
catholic
leper colony
missionary priest

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

February 8, 2024

6
6/10

In 1936, a US naval vessel travels from Hawaii at the behest of King Leopold III of Belgium to repatriate the body of Jozef De Veuster (Father Damiaan). Why? Well fifty years earlier he befriended a local population of lepers on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i where only the sick were permitted to l

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