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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Daens is a 1992 Belgian film, directed by Stijn Coninx, which was nominated for an Academy Award. It is a biographical film based on a novel by Louis Paul Boon about the 19th century Belgian priest Adolf Daens and the emergence of Christian Democracy in Belgium. It stars Jan Decleir in the title role, Antje De Boeck as female factory worker Nette Scholliers, Michael Pas as socialist agitator Jan De Meeter and Gérard Desarthe as the villainous industrial baron and politician Charles Woeste.At the end of the 19th century Belgium is in the process of industrialisation and facing an economic crisis. Working conditions in the town of Aalst are squalid and when economic crisis interferes with the profitability of the textile mills, the proprietors lay off all male workers and replace them with women and children, who are cheaper to employ. The charismatic but recalcitrant priest Adolf Daens arrives in Aalst to live with his brother and he witnesses the harsh impact of industrial exploitation on the workers and the wavering faith of the workers in the Roman Catholic Church and the attractions of socialism. Families are torn apart by unemployment and alcoholism and women and children die due to hunger, cold and fatigue. Furthermore the women in the mills are sexually harassed and the children used for dangerous chores. Unable to stand by idly, Daens used the printing press of his brother to denounce the injustice of the industrial system. His efforts pay off when Parliament sends a committee to investigate grievances, but without representives sympathetic to their cause Daens knows that little will change. When universal suffrage is adopted by Parliament, Daens is catapulted into national politics where he champions the rights of the workers. However, conservative forces conspire against him and force him to choose between the workers and his priestly vocation.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })
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 Bittersweet Ending: The film ends with Jefke's funeral, presided over by a defrocked Daens having retired from Parliament after death threats. Daens makes a short speech on how the struggle for workers' rights has only just begun and that they can only count among their allies those who suffer alongside them. But as Nette mourns Jefke, Jan De Meeter vows to marry her and name their first son after Jefke. The ending credits reveal that Daens was re-elected and history reveals that both the worker's movement and Christian Democracy acheived great successes.
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 Children Are Innocent: Subverted. Whilst the young boy named Jefke is good at heart, the poverty and hunger cause him to steal potatos from an elderly woman.
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