In the Name of...

(2013)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 105 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2013

Runtime: 96 мин

Country: Poland

Director: Małgorzata Szumowska

Cast: Анджей Хыра, Матеуш Косьцюкевич, Майя Осташевская, Maria Maj, Лукаш Симлат, Томаш Шухардт, Kamil Adamowicz, Mateusz Gajko, Jakub Gentek, Daniel Świderski

Plot

The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.

Adam, a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21, now lives in a village in rural Poland working with behavioral problem teens who fight and yell abuses. He declines the advances of a young brunette named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for; however, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has been a flight from his own sexuality. When he meets Lukasz, the strange and taciturn son of a simple rural family, Adam's self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden.