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Shared genres: Drama.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2002 2h 12m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Amen.
Drama
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Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
During World War II, Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur), a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designs programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin. He is shocked to learn that the process he has developed to eradicate typhus, by using a hydrogen cyanide mixture called Zyklon B, is now being used for killing Jews and other "undesirables" in extermination camps. Gerstein attempts to notify Pope Pius XII (Marcel Iureş) about the gassings, but is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic Church hierarchy. The only person moved is Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz), a young Society of Jesus priest. Fontana and Gerstein attempt to raise awareness about what is happening to the Jews in Europe but even after Fontana appealing to the pope himself, the Vatican makes only a timid and vague condemnation of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ulrich Tukur
Kurt Gerstein
Mathieu Kassovitz
Riccardo Fontana
Antje Schmidt
Gersteins Frau
Hanns Zischler
Grawitz
Pierre Franckh
Pastor Wehr
August Zirner
Von Weizsäcker
Ulrich Mühe
SS-Arzt
Michel Duchaussoy
Kardinal