German director Volker Schlondorff's follow up to the thrilling THE LEGEND OF RITA (2000) is a grim meditation on faith and betrayal that focuses on a relatively obscure corner of Holocaust history: the fate of the Catholic clergy under the Third Reich. It opens, like so many Holocaust dramas before it, with a cattle car being unloaded before the barbed-wire gates of a concentration camp — in this case, Dachau — and its occupants brutally hustled into wooden barracks. These prisoners, however, aren't Jews but Christian clergymen, including Father Henri Kremer (Ulrich Matthes), a priest from Luxembourg who was arrested for anti-German activities. Henri conti...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins