Amen
Distribution
Distribution Territory/ies:
Greece
Italy
Belgium
Spain
Year: 2003
Call Nş: 20/2003
Year: 2005
Call Nş: 20/2003
Year: 2003
Call Nş: 02/2005
Year: 2005
Call Nş: 02/2005
Greece
Italy
Belgium
Spain
Year: 2003
Call Nş: 20/2003
Year: 2005
Call Nş: 20/2003
Year: 2003
Call Nş: 02/2005
Year: 2005
Call Nş: 02/2005
English Title: Amen
Coproducing Contry/ies: France
Production Company/ies: Renn Productions
Director: Costa-Gavras
Script: Costa-Gavras / Jean-Claude Grumberg
Cast: Ulrich Tukur / Mathieu Kassovitz / Ulrich Mühe / Ion Caramitru
Synopsis: Two systems: the Nazi machine . . . the Vatican and Allied diplomacy. Two men struggling from the inside.
On one side, Kurt Gerstein, a real-life chemist and SS officer, supplied the death camps with zyclon B while he tirelessly denounced the crimes and alerted the Allies, the Pope, the Germans and their churches at his family's and his own risk.
On the other, Ricardo, a young Jesuit, a fictitious character who represents all the priests who had the heart to struggle against savagery, often paying for their courage with their lives . . . Countless priests, some known, others anonymous, who simply were not content to live with the silence of their church's hierarchy.
At what moment in a man's life must ethics come before self-preservation? Kurt Gerstein knew and wanted the world to know.
The film puts on trial the silence of all those who knew and remained silent.
Coproducing Contry/ies: France
Production Company/ies: Renn Productions
Director: Costa-Gavras
Script: Costa-Gavras / Jean-Claude Grumberg
Cast: Ulrich Tukur / Mathieu Kassovitz / Ulrich Mühe / Ion Caramitru
Synopsis: Two systems: the Nazi machine . . . the Vatican and Allied diplomacy. Two men struggling from the inside.
On one side, Kurt Gerstein, a real-life chemist and SS officer, supplied the death camps with zyclon B while he tirelessly denounced the crimes and alerted the Allies, the Pope, the Germans and their churches at his family's and his own risk.
On the other, Ricardo, a young Jesuit, a fictitious character who represents all the priests who had the heart to struggle against savagery, often paying for their courage with their lives . . . Countless priests, some known, others anonymous, who simply were not content to live with the silence of their church's hierarchy.
At what moment in a man's life must ethics come before self-preservation? Kurt Gerstein knew and wanted the world to know.
The film puts on trial the silence of all those who knew and remained silent.
Year: 2002
Section: Competition
Section: Competition
