Dominion: The Original Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)

Directors

Paul Schrader

Cast

Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown

The story

In 1944, a Nazi SS lieutenant named Kessel forces the parish priest of a small village in occupied Holland, Father Lankester Merrin, to participate in arbitrary executions in retaliation for the murder of a German trooper, in exchange for sparing the village. In 1947, Merrin, whose faith was shattered by the incident, is an archaeologist in Derati, a remote area in the Turkana region of British Kenya excavating a Byzantine church built around the 5th century—long before Christianity had reached that region of Africa. He meets up with Father Francis, and Major Granville, the British military officer overseeing the dig.

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