A big-budget musical adaptation of Oscar-nominated Belgian movie “Daens” goes into rehearsal this summer, preparing for an Oct. 4 opening. With its 19th-century setting and a plot mixing young love ...

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite ...

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Story of 19th-century Belgian priest Adolf Daens (Jan DeCleir) who defied the church and the government to help factory workers in their struggle against exploitive mill owners. Charles: Gerard ...