Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Ninth Day - 2004
Would you give your life, your freedom to protect right from wrong? To keep your faith? To protect the lives of others?
In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests, Father Abbé Henri Kremer gets a nine days leave to return to his home town for his mother's funeral. Along this period, the SS Gestapo lieutenant Gebhardt tries to persuade Henri, who was born in silver-spoon and member of an influent Luxembourgian family, to convince the local bishop to give-up resisting to the Germans and write a letter to the Vatican in the name of the Catholic Church of Luxemburg convincing the Pope to support Hitler and the Nazi regime.
A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary "Pfarrerblock 25487".
Labels:
brutal,
Catholic church,
concentration camp,
diaries,
drama,
german,
manipulation,
nazi
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Thanks! I knew I could count on you to post the good ones. ;) Excellent.
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