God On Trial Page #5

Synopsis: Wondering about the meaning and modalities of their triage, presumably to live or burn, Jewish Auschwitz barrack mates start to debate on how or why God can allow (his) people to suffer such fatal misery, which even further divides a devout father and his liberal son. They eventually form a Thora court, which hears theological argumentation as well as practical considerations.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Andy De Emmony
Production: WGBH Boston
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Year:
2008
86 min
3,476 Views


"I've ever given orders

morning ... "

... or sent to his post

dawn?

"Have I ever walked

at the bottom of the abyss?

"What is the way

home of the light? "

"What gives light

frost ... "

Here you are sir,

just as I suspected.

Yes, silence.

How many are you?

Twelve.

This is a place

very well directed.

Yes, there were complications

this morning

caused by the rapid

arrival of transport,

which makes his induction

is not yet complete.

My apologies

for the inconvenience.

Auschwitz is not

a nursing home.

You work or you die.

The choice is yours.

Come on. Up! Arise!

Come on.

Arise!

Stand up. Arise!

Remove it.

I have to use

for health reasons

Just remove it.

This is the dentist.

Come see early

in the morning.

Excuse me, Rabbi.

Can I?

I think the trial

I listen to an end.

Please.

No.

It's important.

For me is important.

You started the trial.

should complete it.

Should continue

the procedure

and cite precedents and.

be men.

They think that we are not

men, but if you are.

We removed

that from us.

Yes, true, but I have

reached a natural conclusion,

and may be a case of ...

He gave us the law,

and debate the law, even

in such a terrible topic

is a kind

prayer ... No

No, no, listen

discuss this ...

... comforted us.

I felt I was listening,

who was with us.

If.

Well ...

in brief ...

we know that ...

we can not know

the mind of God

God is too great.

And all we can

do is pray,

have faith.

Hitler die.

The war will end ...

No, no, no,

That's not going to be.

Ask us to accept predictions

as evidence .. no, no, no

The argument returns

to its beginning.

If you take it to a vote now,

I vote guilty.

It is certainly true of

we can not understand

the mind of God.

His ways are not our own ...

It touches us understand the mind of God.

... and therefore ...

We are not concerned his mind.

... we must respect.

It is his covenant.

We have

to understand that.

All this writing.

We just have

to determine

if broken

their conditions or not.

Where is ...

Where is the scholar?

Where is the scholar?

Psalm return

the psalm.

Tell us the psalm.

Everything? Is,

is very long.

We were getting somewhere when

spoke on Psalm

I forget.

Psalm which was?

David's throne will last

for all time

and their descendants ...

The ...

The throne of David

shall at all times,

and their descendants ...

It has begun

Beginning in

block 7.

I took a couple

of hours to get here.

I still have time

to smoke a cigarette,

sleep with a

few women,

write a sonnet.

Schmidt

continues to say that

people survive.

That's what it says

in the pact.

God guarantees the survival

the Jewish people.

I say that God is guilty

because survival

the people

It is not safe.

No, not you .. How can

our people cease to exist?

Oh, believe me,

that's the plan.

Destroy us.

That's ridiculous.

When I came here,

He had lived all my

Zamkevitz life.

When I walked through these doors,

that was the largest number of people

I had seen in my life.

I saw more people in an hour

that in all my life.

I thought,

How is it possible that

many people are alive?

But now ...

... How is it possible that

many may die?

Please surely know

that the numbers are not important.

When a child dies

tuberculosis,

this is terrible.

"It's worse if a million die?

When a child dies,

Can you believe that

happens for a purpose,

or do not pass the test.

We can not know

the mind of God.

We are not talking

of his mind.

We are talking

covenant,

a deal that promises

we will survive.

Survive as a people

and not be annihilated.

But there are Jews all over

the world, not only in Europe

My brother

has a friend

in Woudge - he told me ...

Do you think if

they kill us here

Left alone to

friend of your brother?

We may be the last.

Maybe our

end is near.

We consider

that we in this room,

we are the holy remnant.

It is therefore important

what we decide.

If you're the last,

We can finish the story.

We can finish it here,

the story that started

with Moses at Sinai

We can finish it,

we can break the covenant.

So I think

that when they come

you, they'll say,

"Oh, no

we are Jews.

Open the doors.

We're going home? "

We're still Jews,

will always be Jews.

Nothing changes for us, because

we are not defendants here.

It is God who is being

defendant, not us.

Aah! Taisez-vous, imbeciles!

He says to shut up.

I understand.

vou et les nazis

sont tous pareils.

Says we're like ...

no, we belong to a. ..

have something in common

with the Nazis.

I am translating.

Maybe wrong.

Scream all you want.

Kill me if you want, just

I will die in the morning.

How many stars do you

there in the universe,

Excuse me, but before ...

... before he dies,

I was physically in Paris.

A hundred thousand

millions of stars

in our galaxy.

Only in our galaxy.

"God made all

those stars?

Very likely. The prophet

Amos tells us ... Why?

Pardon?

He created one hundred thousand

millions of stars

in our own galaxy.

How many of them have

planets, we know.

And yet, his whole attention

is focused on a small planet

just the outer edge

of a spiral.

And even with

whole planet, no.

Only the Jews.

This man,

I believe one hundred thousand

million stars,

signed a contract

with Jews.

Only Jews.

And even with all

Jews, no, no ..

because Jews

I do not count.

So tell me this.

If so loved the Jews,

Why do

Anything else?

Why not filled the universe

with Jews instead of stars?

What is the point?

We do not know the point.

It seems incredible, too,

that throughout the universe,

should choose us.

It is not surprising.

It's crazy.

It is simply

wrong.

Newborns think

that are the focus

the universe.

They think they do

sucking milk believe

that the world fades

when they close their eyes.

They are wrong.

In the Middle Ages, men viewed

that the sun orbited the earth.

They were wrong.

It is an illusion caused

to the point where you are

at that time.

And it's the same with God.

The same.

So, think.

Please think.

In the past, a nation

could have 50 gods,

one to grow corn;

one for the river to rise .. I do not know

Men make their societies

the image of their gods.

Therefore, companies

many gods

have many leaders,

different centers of power.

welcome you to strangers

and to new ideas.

As the Egyptians.

Then next to them

came the Jews ...

... with his great idea.

A great idea.

There is only one God.

Amazing.

And what happens?

create a society

where,

all powers

are concentrated

in the hands of a

man, a king.

An effective partnership.

An efficient ship.

And he has this idea that

God loves them more than anyone.

Thrive.

They maintain that God

for themselves.

They try to isolate themselves.

But then someone comes

even better idea --

Christians.

They say, yes,

there is only one God,

But not only

He loves the Jews.

Love all.

We must conquer

all ...

The Romans

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