25/43
Neither protest nor violence can touch it
Narrative
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide. Niemoeller actor August Diehl has previously played an SS Gestapo officer in The Merciless Scum (2009) and a German citizen who resisted conscription into the German army in Life in Secret (2019).
Reasoning is of no use
Facts that contradict personal prejudices simply cannot be believed – indeed, a fool can critically contradict them, and if they are undeniable, they can only be brushed aside as trivial exceptions. As to “docu-allegory”; this is a solid 7; the historicity is fairly well woven, and the fictionalized account of his death is deeply Christian and compelling.
At times, Bonhoeffer simply doesn’t come across as the educated theologian he was, but rather as a Protestant writing a test
But as a biography, the fundamental flaws (referring to the pre-Barbarossa Eastern Front), and the final scene of his death, his transfer from Flossenburg with his co-conspirators to an anonymous, isolated farmhouse with a random group of strangers, are a bridge too far. Perhaps Germany restricts such things, but for me it was a missed opportunity not to use Flossenburg for the critical scenes in which Sophie Scholl – The Last Days used the guillotine that killed Scholl in the film – was.
The cavalcade of quotes at the end is more than worth the time
Still, this is a "must-see" if you’re willing to accept major departures from history and don’t expect a deep theological journey. Bonhoeffer reminds us that every generation faces its own evil; that each individual must either act or let evil take its course; and that Christ is the one who guides that choice.
And this is a timeless message indeed
https://www.firstresurrection.net/2024/11/07/2024-torrent-download-2/