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Bonhoeffer

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  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 33m
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7.1/10
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Bonhoeffer (2003)
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Dramatic documentary about the young German pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who resisted the Nazi regime and was hanged two weeks before World War II was over.Dramatic documentary about the young German pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who resisted the Nazi regime and was hanged two weeks before World War II was over.Dramatic documentary about the young German pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who resisted the Nazi regime and was hanged two weeks before World War II was over.
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7.1/10
374
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POPULARITY
111,902
5,285
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    • Director
      • Martin Doblmeier
    • Writer
      • Martin Doblmeier(film by)
    • Stars
      • Klaus Maria Brandauer(voice)
      • Adele Schmidt(voice)
      • Richard Mancini(voice)
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    • Director
      • Martin Doblmeier
    • Writer
      • Martin Doblmeier(film by)
    • Stars
      • Klaus Maria Brandauer(voice)
      • Adele Schmidt(voice)
      • Richard Mancini(voice)
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    • 9User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews

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    Klaus Maria Brandauer
    Klaus Maria Brandauer
    • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    • (voice)
    Adele Schmidt
    • Sabine
    • (voice)
    Richard Mancini
    • Bishop Bell
    • (voice)
    Martin Doblmeier
    • Self - Narrator
    • (voice)
    John Conway
    • Self - Historian
    Wolfgang Huber
    • Self
    • (as Bishop Wolfgang Huber)
    John De Gruchy
    • Self - Theologian
    Jean Lasserre
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Otto Dudzus
    • Self - Bonhoeffer Student
    Victoria Barnett
    • Self - Historian
    Renate Bethge
    • Self - Bonhoeffer's Niece
    Christian Gremmels
    • Self - Theologian
    Desmond Tutu
    Desmond Tutu
    • Self
    Eberhard Bethge
    • Self
    Winfried Mächler
    • Self
    Christoph von Dohnányi
    • Self
    Clifford Green
    • Self
    Ruth Alice von Bismarck
    • Self
    • Director
      • Martin Doblmeier
    • Writer
      • Martin Doblmeier(film by)
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    Powerful Lesson in Living One's Beliefs
    This documentary reviews the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer with the focus on the relationship between his religious beliefs and his personal actions. Factually, there's little in the movie that you could not get from Google. Bonhoeffer was one of a minority of Christian leaders in Germany who publicly and privately opposed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. What the film does is anecdotally present the growth of Bonhoeffer's theology from the conventional Lutheranism of his upbringing into a kind of social activism in which the actions of one's life are what bring one to Christ. The defining moment is when Bonhoeffer arrives in New York, intending to teach at Union Seminary, only to realize "one who believes does not flee." The film notes the irony that while Bonhoeffer did not like Reinhold Niebuhr, by the end of his life he was living the kind of social activism preached by Niebuhr.

    The film itself is well-made and follows a standard documentary format, with period films, stills and interviews with surviving friends and family. Significant passages from Bonhoeffer's writing are mixed into the narrative description.

    Bonhoeffer was a pastor, teacher and theologian. His life was not exciting in the conventional sense, although he did some spying against the Nazis that must have been nerve racking. And much of this film is spent relating belief and action. The question asked and answered for him was a simple one: To what extent are our actions the consequence of our beliefs? It's the question we are left to ponder for ourselves.
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    • Release date
      • April 2003 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Site
      • PBS presentation
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    • Production company
      • Journey Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $296,181
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $10,099
      • Jun 22, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $296,181
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
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    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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