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Amen. (2002)
7.3
Ratings: 7.3/10 from 6,518 users
Metascore:
57/100
Reviews: 43 user | 62 critic | 19 from Metacritic.com
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to concentration camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana gives him a hand. Director:Costa-Gavras |
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| Ulrich Tukur | ... | ||
| Mathieu Kassovitz | ... |
Riccardo Fontana
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Michel Duchaussoy | ... |
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Ion Caramitru | ... |
Count Fontana
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| Friedrich von Thun | ... |
Gerstein's Father
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Antje Schmidt | ... |
Mrs. Gerstein
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Hanns Zischler | ... | |
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Höss
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Erich Hallhuber | ... |
Von Rutta
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Burkhard Heyl | ... |
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Angus MacInnes | ... |
Tittman
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Bernd Fischerauer | ... |
Bishop von Galen
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Pierre Franckh | ... |
Pastor Wehr
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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 Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Budget:
FRF 103,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
€146,010 (Spain) (12 January 2003) (52 Screens)Gross:
$274,299 (USA) (10 August 2003)Company Credits
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Stephan Lux: [interrupting a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Geneve, 1936] My name is Stephan Lux. I am Jewish. The Jews are being persecuted in Germany and the world doesn't care.
[He draws a pistol]
Stephan Lux: I see no other way to reach people's hearts.
[He shoots himself]
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Stefan Lux was a Jewish Czech journalist, who committed suicide in the general assembly room of the League of Nations during its session, July 3, 1936, to alert the world on the perils of German antisemitism. After shouting "C'est le dernier coup" ("This is the final blow") he shot himself with a revolver. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: In one of the scenes they say that the Treblinka camp is out of gas, referring to Zyklon B. Treblinka didn't use Zyklon B, instead they used carbon monoxide. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Stephan Lux: [interrupting a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Geneve, 1936] My name is Stephan Lux. I am Jewish. The Jews are being persecuted in Germany and the world doesn't care.
[He draws a pistol]
Stephan Lux: I see no other way to reach people's hearts.
[He shoots himself]
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