Hilde eynikel biography of martin

"Father Damien, who was beatified by the Pope in , was a Belgian priest who in volunteered to work as a missionary in a leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

Hilde eynikel biography of martin

This film about his life, inspired by a biography by Hilde Eynikel, was initiated by ERA, a Belgian production company, and was budgeted as the most expensive Belgian production to date. The producers decided that [Paul] Cox, whose reputation in Europe is, perhaps, greater than it is in Australia, would be the ideal director for the project. 

Right from the start, though, it became clear that Cox’s intimate style was at odds with the lavish biography the producers envisaged.

Screenwriter John Briley, who wrote the screenplay about the life of another saintly man, Gandhi, was hired and it was originally planned to feature an internationally famous actor as Damien. When Cox, in what proved to be a stroke of genius, insisted on David Wenham, the producers insist