Stealing Heaven

Stealing Heaven (1988)

Forgive us father for we have loved.

Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.

Date of release
1988-05-20
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
History, Romance, Drama
Director
Clive Donner

Casting

Interesting facts

Stealing Heaven is a 1988 film directed by Clive Donner and starring Derek de Lint, Kim Thomson and Denholm Elliott. It is a costume drama based on the French 12th-century medieval romance of Peter Abelard and Héloïse and on a historical novel by Marion Meade. This was Donner's final theatrical film, before his death in 2010.

Production

The picture was filmed on location in Yugoslavia. Denholm Elliott had worked with Clive Donner before, having starred in Nothing But the Best (1964).

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