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AMEN
Kurt Gerstein, newly commissioned SS Lieutenant and
respected civilian chemist, discovers that the Zyklon B pellets he has
developed to disinfect soldiers' drinking water are being used to gas
interred Jews by the thousands. Gerstein secretly approaches the Swedish
Consulate, the German Protestant community and finally Vatican
representatives in the hopes of exposing this unspeakable crime. The only
one who listens is Father Ricardo, a young Jesuit priest with deep family
connections at the Vatican. Ricardo promises Gerstein he will alert the
Pope to the Jewish genocide in hopes that the pontiff will reveal and
denounce the Final Solution to the Christian world... A superbly filmed,
wholly engrossing epic by Academy-Award winning director Costa-Gavras.
Special guest: Prof. Robert Ericksen (Dept. of History,
PLU; author of Theologians Under Hitler)
France, 2002 130 min.
English
Costa-Gavras, Director
Saturday, March 15th 7:30 PM
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