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3 September 2008 (UK) moreGenre:
DramaPlot:
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial. | add synopsisAwards:
2 nominations moreUser Comments:
A masterpiece of TV drama moreCast
(Credited cast)| Josef Altin | ... | Isaac | |
| Ashley Artus | ... | Ricard | |
| Dominic Cooper | ... | Moche | |
| Lorcan Cranitch | ... | Blockaltester | |
| David de Keyser | ... | Hugo | |
| Stephen Dillane | ... | Schmidt | |
| Rupert Graves | ... | Mordechai | |
| François Guétary | ... | Jacques | |
| Agnieszka Liggett | ... | Tour Guide | |
| Louise Mardenborough | ... | Emily | |
| Eddie Marsan | ... | Lieble | |
| Iain McGregor | ... | German Guard | |
| André Oumansky | ... | Jacob | |
| Blake Ritson | ... | Idek | |
| Jack Shepherd | ... | Kuhn | |
| Antony Sher | ... | Akiba | |
| Stellan Skarsgård | ... | Baumgarten | |
| René Zagger | ... | Ezra |
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90 minCountry:
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1.78 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UKFun Stuff
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Hat Trick has employed a rabbi to consult on the script. moreQuotes:
Mordechai: Don't let them take your God away from you too. Whether he exists or not, don't let them take that away too. moreFAQ
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In a freezing, filthy, overcrowded hut in Auschwitz a group of emaciated Jewish prisoners await their fate. Around half of them will be selected for the gas chamber within a couple of hours and most seem paralysed by fear, hunger and despair - but one angry inmate rails against God. His anger provokes reactions and soon the men - they are all men - agree to put God on trial, quickly organising a kind of tribunal in the traditions of their religion.
This drama confronts one of the central issues of human existence - the basis of faith - and sets it in a time and place that has become a by-word for inhumanity. With writing that is emotive, intelligent and unflinching throughout complimented by a series of utterly convincing and moving performances from all the principals, this was one of the most absorbing and challenging pieces of TV drama I have witnessed in years. In fact I would go further: This ranks as one of the finest TV productions I have ever seen.
For me the almost real time context lifted this play beyond another testimony to the Holocaust. The characters all know the past - indeed, they acknowledge several hideous near genocidal atrocities by their Jewish ancestors - but they don't know the future.
I won't spoil the outcome but, please, seek this out. If it doesn't make you think and doesn't touch your heart, you may not be alive.