Amen
Costa Gavras
Kurt Gerstein, lieutenant SS, devient superviseur de l'approvisionnement en gaz Zyklon B dans les camps de la mort. Horrifié de découvrir la réalité des chambres à gaz, il tente d'avertir le Pape Pie XII de l'extermination menée par Hitler.
With : Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Marcel Iures, Ion Caramitru
Screenplay : Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Image : Patrick Blossier
Sound : Pierre Gamet, Francis Wargnier
Editing : Yannick Kergoat
Music : Armand Amar
Screenplay : Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Image : Patrick Blossier
Sound : Pierre Gamet, Francis Wargnier
Editing : Yannick Kergoat
Music : Armand Amar
Production : Renn Productions, Katharina, K.G. Productions, TF1 Films Production
Distribution: Pathé distribution
www.pathefilms.com
Distribution: Pathé distribution
www.pathefilms.com
In Amen, Costa-Gavras shows the chaotic pathway of an SS officer who oversees, in extreme shock, the implementation of the final solution, and who decides to alert the religious authorities. Some have criticised Costa-Gavras for drawing a Manichaean and historically biased vision of a Vatican which was both complacent and deaf to the protests of Kurt Gernstein and his ally, the Jesuit Ricardo, criticisms to which Costa-Gavras replied that “it is the question of ethics which I'm interested in. A film is not a historical document. That is not its role. Amen's ambition is to raise moral questions. Particularly the question of indifference”.