Amen.
Two Men, Two Worlds, One Cause.
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Production
Budget
$0
Box office
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Director
Actors
Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Iureș, Ion Caramitru, Friedrich von Thun, Antje Schmidt, Günther Maria Halmer, Hanns Zischler
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Andrei Boncea, Michèle Ray-Gavras
Camera operator
Patrick Blossier
Composer
Artist
Ari Hantke
Audition
Jina Jay, Sabine Schroth, Florin Kevorkian
Editing
Yannick Kergoat
Whole Team (46)
Whole Team (46)
Short description
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
What's left behind the scenes
- The Vatican did not grant permission to film in its buildings. Ultimately, director and screenwriter Costa-Gavras found a building of the necessary size in Bucharest, the capital of Romania (referring to the Palace of Parliament, the largest building in Europe). Some street scenes were filmed in the Mogosoaia Palace ensemble, built in 1692-1702, approximately 14 km northwest of Bucharest.
- Stefan Lux (played by Ovidiu Cuncea in the film) was a Czech Jew, a journalist, who committed suicide in the League of Nations building in Geneva on July 3, 1936, hoping to draw the world’s attention to the danger of persecution of Jews in Germany. He shot himself, shouting “C'est le dernier coup” (“This is the last blow”).
- Kurt Gerstein (played by Ulrich Tukur) witnessed corpses being thrown into mass graves, and his driver reported that the crematoria could not keep up with burning the bodies. This was indeed the case: in 1942, the 18-meter-high furnaces for burning bodies operated non-stop. They were designed to incinerate from 1,200 to 4,800 bodies per day, or from 360,000 to 1,400,000 bodies per year, operating 300 days a year.
- Marina Berti's last role.
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