Synopsis
Amen. (2002) 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. ??Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Awards: 4 wins & 9 nominations
Budget: FRF 103,000,000 (estimated)
Worldwide Gross: $8,419,052
Soundtrack: The Train I /II (Composed and arranged by Armand Amar)


Costa-Gavras
Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe
2002-02-27 (France, Germany, Romania)
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