Amen
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 10, 2014
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mathieu Kassovitz | |
Performer: | Ion Caramitru, Ulrich Tukur, Marcel Iures, Ulrich Mühe & Michael Duchaussoy | |
Directed by | Costa-Gavras | |
Music by | Armand Amar | |
Screenwriting by | Jean Claude-Grumberg & Costa-Gavras | |
Produced by | Claude Berri | |
Director of Photography: | Patrick Blossier | |
Executive Production by | Michele Ray |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Though Costa-Gavras brings nothing new to the table about the Holocaust, he puts another nail down in the argument that the world could have acted but didn't because of indifference.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 2/4 --
Amen., a docudrama rather than a documentary, is clearly guided by Shoah's example, asking us to reflect on the Holocaust and what made it possible rather than simply recoil from it.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 1.5/5 --
a sputtering, wet firecracker
Filmcritic.com
...AMEN has such immediacy and briskness that we are caught up in the increasingly risky actions of Gerstein and Fontana....AMEN is a handsome period production of fluidity and subtlety, intimate and large-scale...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: B- --
In a remarkably subtle turn, the German Tukur is convincing as [Gerstein].
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Dallas Morning News
Rating: C+ --
What should have been agonizing in its impact comes off as wooden, perhaps because Costa-Gavras works in schematic fashion, spoon-feeding us issues while skimming the historical surface.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
There is an excellent performance from Ulrich Tukur....Handsomely shot...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Z, MISSING) has a reputation for controversial political cinema, and he does not fail to raise eyebrows with AMEN. Focusing on the Vatican's unwillingness to oppose the Holocaust, and two men who tried to change the system from within, AMEN is adapted from the play THE REPRESENTATIVE by Rolf Hochhuth. It is based on a true story about officer Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur), a Nazi soldier who moved up the SS ranks by devising a chemical method to purify soldiers' drinking water. Gerstein is unaware of the horrors of the concentration camps until he is recruited by "The Doctor" (Ulrich Muhe) to adapt the same chemical for use in the gas chambers. Though Gerstein is overwhelmed by the reality of the impending massacre, he does not turn a blind eye. He informs the Swedes, the German Protestant Church, and even the Vatican. But he is sent away, dismissed, and otherwise silenced by all but the tenacious Father Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz), a fictitious character based on a number of priests who fought against the Holocaust. Father Riccardo takes life-threatening risks in a fruitless effort to convince the cardinal (Michel Duchaussoy) and the Pope (Marcel Iures) to rise above their fears of Nazi retribution.
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