Summaries

Fourth Week Films and the New Orleans Jesuit Province present Xavier, a new PBS-style documentary film on the life of the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Narrated by Liam Neeson, Xavier tells the missionary's compelling story through dramatizations, interviews, contemporary location shots, paintings and engravings, maps, and most importantly, the extant letters of Xavier. The film features interviews with distinguished scholars of Jesuit and Renaissance history including Ingrid Rowland (Notre Dame University), Andrew Ross (University of Edinburgh), Lourdes del Costa (University of Goa, India), Anthony Ucerler, SJ (Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome), Gauvin Bailey (Clark University) and John O'Malley, SJ, (Weston Jesuit School of Theology).—Jeffrey C Johnson

Details

Keywords
  • making of
  • reenactment
Genres
  • History
  • Documentary
Release date Sep 28, 2006
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Goa, India
Production companies Fourth Week Films

Box office

Budget $100000

Tech specs

Runtime 56m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

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