Amen. Page #8

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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Fritsche, you take care of this.

We will make him sign

that he saw only floors of flowers.

Wait in the canteen.

Let Berlin know...

that I had nothing to do with it.

He will be here in five minutes.

What else?

Let Berlin know...

that I had nothing to do with it.

Do not worry.

Corporal, you may leave.

My God...

Your father was sure

that you were in this train.

I am going to take you out of here.

God allows his children...

to be eaten.

I want to understand...

why.

Why sacrifice yourself?

You are wrong...

You are wrong.

It is necessary to go and tell the world

what occurs here.

I cannot leave.

Gerstein!

The world knows all.

Look at him,

He does not have any more the air of a priest!

Put him with those which he loves so much!

He is a diplomat of the Vatican,

He is here by error.

Me also, I am here by error.

It is the martial court, Gerstein...

Falsification of an order of Himmler.

Have you been to Rome?

crying for your safety.

And I trusted you...

By the chimney!

He will go more quickly to heaven.

I spoke to Himmler, on the telephone.

He wants to make disappear

all traces of the mass graves.

Do not be surprised.

Tomorrow, he will ask

to dismount the showers and the furnaces.

He tries to exchange

Hungarian Jews

but he does not find

anybody willing to take them.

The priest got you

good contacts in Rome?

Yes.

If you want to benefit from it,

He is needed alive.

Too late.

I will manage myself.

The most glorious page

of German history

will never be written.

Did Rome remain a pleasant city?

I will not leave my country.

They will hang us, Kurt.

You before me.

Your name is on the invoices

of Zyklon.

Return home,

at the Institute, wherever you want...

We do not need more of your competences.

Your God will have problems

with you, Gerstein.

What happens?

Reverend, I am in a hurry.

What are we going to do?

You returned!

I must set out again.

Dad is there!

You will know finally what I did,

what I know. I will be the witness...

You will not be listened to.

The S.S. are...

I have evidence,

figures, of the names.

I will go...

The Americans will understand.

The French are closer.

The Americans are far.

- You cannot cross the lines.

- the are no lines anymore. The front is broken

Reverend said to me that you were here.

What happened to us, Kurt?

All that it is said is true?

All.

I knew it,

but will it be ready on time?

What?

The secret weapon.

Yes.

I knew it.

We will stop them.

Put your uniform on, my son.

Father...

I leave on mission.

Wait here.

What to do with him Captain?

Wait, Gerstein did not finish.

Our friend Gerstein writes

the French version of his report.

Another version?

What do you think of him?

HE says he has resisted

the policy of atrocities.

He resisted while being inside

up to that point!

I do not believe him guilty.

His report is a significant document.

Here is the first bill of indictment against him.

"... that it was not

neither comprehensible nor excusable

"that a devout Christian like him

"did not do all that was

in its power

to keep away from

the criminal system... "

The S.S. Gerstein was found

hung in his cell.

He hung himself or was hung?

I do not know.

I want a written report.

Mgr Hudal?

Your friends suggested me the United States.

They take only specialists

in chemistry, aviation, physics...

biology...

I am a doctor, a simple doctor.

Then, it will be Argentina.

There is a boat in six days.

MeanWhile, You can stay over here.

The Report of Gerstein contributed

to the authentification of the Holocaust.

Kurt Gerstein was rehabilitated

20 years later

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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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