Overview
Plot
Kurt Gerstein, a Waffen-SS hygiene institute member, is horrified to learn the poison gas he helped develop is being used to kill Jews. He joins a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, to alert the world, but the Vatican ignores their pleas.
- Directors
- Costa-Gavras
- Cast
- Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Marcel Iureș, Ion Caramitru, Friedrich von Thun, Antje Schmidt, Günther Maria Halmer, Hanns Zischler, Sebastian Koch, Monica Bleibtreu, Justus von Dohnányi, Pierre Franckh, August Zirner, Susanne Lothar, Michael Mendl, Nina Proll, Richard Durden, Angus MacInnes
- Country
- France, Germany
- Genre
- Drama, History
- Release date
- 2002-02-27
- Studios
- Katharina, Renn Productions, KC Medien, TF1 Films Production
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Amen. Plot and Cast
Kurt Gerstein, who belongs to the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS, discovers with horror that a poison gas he helped develop is being used in the mass murder of Jews. Conscience-stricken, he partners with Riccardo Fontana, a young Jesuit priest, to warn the world. Their urgent appeals, however, meet with indifference at the Vatican.
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