God On Trial Page #6

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


They loved it.

Developed.

They conquered all.

A god.

A king.

This is how it is.

It is the

power and control,

and what

lost.

But midway

the Romans are gone ... Because

Because someone

had a better idea.

Hitler ...

had the idea,

there is one God, and that's me.

Here,

Hitler is God not?

But still

we're here.

We are still

here tonight.

You deny God.

What has given you?

What?

There are many here

who have denied God.

They became, taken by

wife a goya,

turned their backs

to the Scriptures ...

Sorry. Is

talking about me.

We're here to point

die, and what

you dislike the most

is the fact that I married.

But where did he give?

Where you feel you are

different from me now?

What you got?

Please.

Please point out one point.

These kids educated

Like my son,

like this man

said they saw a truth

that we did not see.

But here they are,

all equal

Facing death.

Look at Ricard.

Outside

was a rich man.

He had many friends.

But here,

is scared.

He can not believe

he will die.

Because I will not die.

Your going to die,

pious idiot.

He has been selected.

I've been selected!

You were sent to the

left like me,

and now you're scared.

The cheats and steals

because he thinks

have more bread than the rest

of us will make you happy.

And think the pray

going to save your life.

hats and still

continue its course

to death!

There is a wasp.

It is called

Ichneumonidae.

The eggs are laid

in the Caterpillars.

The eggs hatch

and then the larvae

wasp

eat the caterpillar

from within.

Eat out

offline.

What kind of God

would design something?

And yet ...

Sorry.

Y. .. my grandfather

planted figs.

There is a wasp ...

I'm sure you know.

And this wasp lays

eggs on the flower.

And when the young wasps

are ready to fly,

collect pollen.

Not accumulate against the

as another wasp

or a bee or wind.

They stop

and collect pollen.

You can see them.

And then carry

pollen

the other trees.

This did not help.

They can not eat.

They do ..

It is a beautiful arrangement.

Surely God ...

Say,

this wasp.

Does this for

all figs

or only for the Jews?

They laugh at me ...

I laugh at you.

Just do

observe things

not like babies,

but as men

Men of reason.

Use your right.

We speak

of reason.

What is the reason?

When caught you at your university in Paris,

where you looked as not Jewish,

spoke as a Jew,

thought as a Jew,

and you put

here with us,

that part played

reason in this?

What is the use

of reason

in a world governed

by madness?

The decision

be voted

of judges.

Sorry, judges

court,

You were wrong

about my children?

Is there anything

hope after all?

Nothing.

Get used to this.

Nothing.

The judges granted.

I'm not Jewish.

I never knew

my father.

I did not know he was Jewish.

He died when I

was still a baby. "

My mother was a ...

a good German.

He returned home and resumed

her maiden name.

They thought that every

had been forgotten.

At school I was

a good boy.

I became

a good father.

My children joined

the Hitler Youth.

It was a year ago

The Gestapo came for me.

That was the first

I heard from my race.

I thought it was a

normal German.

I was German.

A German

hated Jews.

He knew nothing about

their customs.

The learned here.

I have never heard a word

of the Torah before coming here.

But I am not alone.

They must understand that ...

... I grew up learning

that Jews were

dirty, misleading

and disorganized.

And when I got here, I saw that

everything you thought was true

This place was chaotic,

dirty and disorganized;

I thought I was

because of the Jews.

How could this be another

dirty thing?

There is only one latrine

for 5,000 people

That's why.

Think

is a mistake?

Do you think

German engineer

not put

adequate plumbing

by mistake?

No.

This is not how it was.

Nothing here is accidental.

The soil is

part of the system,

like ...

the fence, spotlights y. ..

the other equipment.

It serves a function.

This is where they

take away their dignity,

their humanity.

Our dignity.

Our humanity.

It is part of the process.

So they can ...

Germans get

Common kill us,

should show

that we are what ordinary Germans to

are taught to think we are ...

dirty,

and without a God-fearing.

When they arrived here,

took away their property;

people took their names;

cut their hair;

took their children ...

wives, mothers ...

even filling in their teeth.

All

which were removed

made them to be men

Do not let you remove

your God, too.

No matter how ...

how stupid and useless

may seem,

the pact is his.

God is his God.

Even though there is.

Keep it.

Leave something that

not be removed.

Us.

Judges are

three in number

to always

have a decision.

To be unanimous

or has a majority

for a

point of view.

The accusation is

God has broken his covenant

with the Jewish people.

Who brought us out

Egypt?

Finally some

common sense.

God brought us out of Egypt.

Another question.

Why

at first

were in Egypt?

There was a famine, and by

Therefore we take refuge.

Who sent the famine?

Well, hunger,

not know much about ...

God sent famine.

So God

sent to Egypt

and God

out of Egypt.

Exactly.

And then we got

Babylon,

in order to ..

And when we out of Egypt

how did?

With words? Visions?

A miracle?

Moses asked the Pharaoh ...

And when Pharaoh said no?

Pests.

Moses became the first

Egyptian water into blood,

then God sent

the plague of frogs,

then the plague

mosquitoes,

then, a plague of

flies, then killed

their livestock,

then the plague

the rash

then hail,

crops that abused

and even the trees

and structures everywhere

except in Goshen,

where the Israelites lived.

And yet Pharaoh

disagreed.

And so the plague

locusts

and then the days of darkness

and, finally, what?

God killed the

firstborn of Egypt

and us out of Egypt.

He killed the firstborn,

from the firstborn

and heir of Pharaoh

the firstborn from the

slaves in the mills.

Murdered them all.

God killed Pharaoh?

No, I think

because then ...

He was the Pharaoh who said no,

but God let him live

and killed their children

instead.

All children.

And then the

people of Israel

could leave,

taking with them

gold and silver

and jewelry and clothing

dress of the Egyptians.

And then God drowned

soldiers

who pursued them.

It closed the waters to the

soldiers could not follow.

He waited until

were following

and then

closed waters.

And then what?

Then the desert

Finally, the

promised land ...

Now, the Promised Land

was .. is empty?

A new place,

fallow?

No. There was ...

As written,

"When the Lord your God

"I take you to land,

"sacrificed many

nations before you,

"much bigger countries

"and more powerful

you.

"You

"will annihilate

and completely destroyed

"and will do no

covenant with them

and will show no compassion

toward them. "

He showed us his favor.

We are his people.

And gave us a

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