The Bridge of San Luis Rey

2004

English

5.0

♡ 2

4%

36%

18th century

based on novel or book

Mary McGuckian Director

Robert De Niro as Archbishop of Peru

Geraldine Chaplin as The Abbess

Harvey Keitel as Uncle Pio

F. Murray Abraham as Viceroy of Peru

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.