Amen. Page #3

Synopsis: In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.
Director(s): Costa-Gavras
Production: Kino International
  4 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
NOT RATED
Year:
2002
132 min
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Sit down.

Prevent them from following me!

They miss you.

They see very little of you.

Better if you are unaware of

what I will say to the Reverend.

I discovered a horrible thing.

Jews...

- Not here.

- It is unimaginable!

Later...

They are not expelled

like we thought but exterminated.

- What?

- Exterminated!

Enter.

I just returned from the camps in Poland.

They exterminate the Jews.

Most robust

are sent to the forced labour.

Women and children...

are gassed.

I saw it with my own eyes.

The Church must alert the Christians!

The first thing you have to do

is to leave the S.S.!

I saw what I should not.

A witness is needed.

I will be the eyes of God

in this hell.

That can be terrible

for you and your family.

One must denounce the assassins!

I will testify at the service to today.

We can start.

We arrive.

Undoubtedly, it is necessary to react,

but in a reflected, responsible way.

The Dibelius superintendent

can advise you.

He celebrated your marriage, not?

Leave the S.S.

Remain far from all that!

We said...

you said that the Jews are

a foreign body that one must expel,

that one can discriminate them

but not to persecute them.

Let us admit the massive executions.

- What do you suggest?

- To protest!

Protest which will be picked up

by the propaganda of the enemy.

We will be accussed of treason.

We are in war.

The Church reacted

against the extermination of handicapped...

Euthanasy, not extermination.

The public clamour stopped

the euthanasy.

Let us protest for the Jews.

The handicapped people were

baptized members of our Church.

You are a soldier,

far from daily realities.

Our people are bombarded,

inflicted cruel deprivations.

the majority of our faithful

and of our pastors

support Mr Hitler.

Nobody will protest,

nobody will believe you.

Fhrer and Himmler

also attended a test.

They order to accelerate the output.

The Institute sends to me to the east

to purify water...

I cannot take part in this.

That is not contradictory,

our installations are in the east.

Von Rotta, Hoess and yourself

had accepted the plans.

I speak about output.

I had announced the risk

of thermal distortion which...

Brought into service on March 22,

25, after having treated

a convoy of 3000 units,

The furnaces burst by overheating!

- You drew on the costs.

- labour is free!

Use the model of campaign.

It should unceasingly be clogged

and the tar is rationed.

Lieutenant Gerstein,

expert in destruction of vermin...

in any kind.

We need you.

I am not qualified

for this type of operation.

According to his superiors,

Gerstein excels

where he is not qualified.

Not so sure...

Here is the new generation of

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Costa-Gavras

Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director and producer, who lives and works in France. He is known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller Z (1969), but he has also made comedies. Most of his movies have been made in French; however, six were made in English: Missing (1982), Hanna K. (1983), Betrayed (1988), Music Box (1989), Mad City (1997) and Amen. (2002). He produces most of his films himself, through his production company K.G. Productions. more…

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