Amen.

"Two Men, Two Worlds, One Cause"

Feb 27 2002 Not Rated 2h 12m
Biography, Crime, Drama

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.

Plot

In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.

Written by

Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Rolf Hochhuth

Directed by

Costa-Gavras

Cast

Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe

Crew

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Production Countries

France, Romania, Germany

Production Companies

K.G Productions, TF1 Films Production, Canal+, Renn Productions, Katharina, KC Medien

Languages

Italiano, Français, English, Deutsch

Awards

4 wins & 9 nominations

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