Amen [DVD] / Claude Berri presents a coproduction Katharina/Renn Productions, TF1 Films production in association with KC Medien, with the participation of Canal+, a film by Costa-Gavras ; screenplay writers, Costa-Gavras, Jean Claude Grumberg ; director, Costa-Gavras.
Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru, Marcel Iures, Friedrich von Thun, Antje Schmidt, Angus MacInnes. Originally released as a motion picture in 2002. Based on "Der Stellvertreter (Le Vicaire) by Rolf Hochhuth. Special features: "making of" documentary; "Amen" and "The deputy": scene comparison; the "Amen." pressbook; theatrical trailers.
Summary:
When a newly commissioned SS Lieutenant witnesses the chemical disinfectant he's helped perfect being used to systematically murder interred Jews, he knows he must act. The only symphatic ear he finds is a young priest with ties to the Vatican. As the two unlikely allies fight to reveal the truth to the Church and world, they discover that a man of conscience can commit treason and a man of God can commit heresy in order to thwart genocide.
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