Amen. Page #4

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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installations...

who can treat 10000 units per day.

10000?

But...

it is impossible!

It will be needed.

In Europe, it is necessary to eliminate

11 to 12 million units.

The Fhrer wants to finish by 1948.

We will devote 1949

to the rest of the world.

The Fifty will be sabbatical.

The problem, it is that...

during the operation,

the crystals evaporate partially.

Evaporation begins again

after clearing of the places.

That slows down cleaning.

The crystals only evaporate

in contact with the air.

And while falling,

do the bodies choke the crystals?

Exactly.

Sometimes, crystals exposed to the air

evaporate into 40 to 50 minutes

instead of 5 to 10.

That slows down the rate

and prevents any estimate.

Two factors can play:

The bad quality of the product

or a low temperature.

The number will raise the temperature.

Famous human heat...

Latticed conduits

will protect the crystals.

You will provide crystals

of quality in great quantity.

- My work at the Institute...

- We will divide you with them.

You will furfill your duty as an S.S.

and a Christian:

you will reduce to five minutes

the agony of the units

and you will accelerate performance.

- Lieutenant...

- Professor would be righter.

How long is necessary it

before intervening without mask?

- the filters are too expensive.

- Two hours.

Two hours!

Without ventilation, it is a minimum.

Which ventilation?

Which cubage?

1250 m3 on average.

With a pulsor of air of 1 CV,

you will gain one hour.

We will put two of them.

Turn over to your work

of cleansing

without forgetting your

Christian mission of public utility.

- the Nuncio does not receive!

- 5 minutes! It is very important.

His Eminence does not see anybody.

Announce me!

Excellence,

it is necessary that I speak to you.

- I must speak to you.

- What do you do here?

Lt Kurt Gerstein, Excellence.

I have information for the Vatican.

Its gravity justifies my intrusion.

I am shocked by your intrusion!

I'll call the police force.

If my superiors learn my visit...

It is an intrusion, Mister.

I have a message for the Vatican.

I arrive from Poland,

from the camps of Auschwitz and Belzec.

Thousands of Jews are gassed.

Enough!

Leave from here! Come, Count,

we cannot listen to that!

I saw all of my own eyes,

Excellence...

convoys from all over Europe

arrive in these factories of death.

Only the Vatican

can stop these atrocities.

Only the Pope, by alerting

the world opinion and Christians...

Thank you for troubling yourself

about the actions of His Holiness!

Are you a Catholic?

Excellence...

what I saw

haunts me day and night.

Even in death

the families are recognized.

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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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