Boerenpsalm (1989)

Boerenpsalm 1989 This Flemish heimat movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans, the title of which translates as farmers psalm, is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a god fearing peasant in a pre war Belgian village, who has a hard time accepting the curates assurance its all part of Gods grand plan when his loved ones keep coming to terrible harm, and searching solace in the hand carving of a wooden statue of Christ