I wonder if Martin Scorsese ever considered the title, Black Robe 2: Japan Calling for his 2017 Silence, because his movie and this 1999 Bruce Beresford epic both tell the story of Jesuit missionaries, or 'black robes' traversing new lands in the 17th Century (here it is New France (Canada), not Japan) searching for colleagues and encountering persecution and brutality as religion clashes with natives.
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