Amen.
The movie is about Kurt Gersteein. He is a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute. He is shocked when he knows that the process he has developed is now being used to kill Jews. He tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews who is sent to concentration camps. Only Young Jesuit priest Ricardo Fontana helps him.
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30 October 1970, Bucharest, Romania
27 July 1967, Bucuresti, Romania
31 May 1962, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
14 January 1962, Lipetzk, Russia
14 July 1951, Munich, Germany
12 January 1974, Vienna, Austria
4 May 1944, Vienna, Austria
26 April 1960, Siegen, Germany
15 November 1960, Hamburg, Germany
22 July 1954, Constanta, Romania
26 February 1940, Bucharest, Romania
20 May 1956, Berlin, Germany
1967, Moers, Germany
26 April 1968, Lugoj, Romania
7 November 1940, Romania
2 March 1971, Moscow, USSR
19 May 1962
August 01, 2003
It's so inert, so slow-moving that it seems at least twice as long as it really is, and it manages to waste a potentially fascinating premise.
August 01, 2003
Costa-Gavras often shortchanges the story's inherent drama for talky and strident speechifying.
July 16, 2003
Extremely heavy-handed, almost comically repetitious, and way too long.
August 27, 2003
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.
May 01, 2003
In a remarkably subtle turn, the German Tukur is convincing as [Gerstein].
September 23, 2003
a sputtering, wet firecracker
April 11, 2003
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.
June 27, 2003
Tukur's performance is the centerpiece of the movie; it's a wonderful mixture of outrage and swiftly disappearing naivete.
August 12, 2003
Though such elements might chip away somewhat at Amen's seriousness of intent, they do add fire to the stimulating drama.
May 28, 2003
Costa-Gavras' political thrillers used to jab and thrust with lethal efficiency. This one just pounds against a heavy bag, huffing and puffing all the way.
March 14, 2003
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.
July 25, 2003
Costa-Gavras deserves credit for staying the course; in a time when most European film directors are wringing their hands, he's still pointing fingers.
