Polski opis

Produkcja: Niemcy, Luksemburg
Gatunek: Dramat, Wojenny
Rok produkcji: 2004
Reżyseria: Volker Schlöndorff
Scenariusz: Eberhard Görner, Andreas Pflüger
Język: niemiecki

Treść:
W lutym 1942 roku Henri Kremer, ksiądz z Luksemburga, zostaje zwolniony z obozu koncentracyjnego w Dachau i odesłany do domu. Kremer wkrótce zdaje sobie sprawę, że naziści nie są zadowoleni z decyzji jego biskupa, który nie zgadza się na współpracę z Niemcami. Chcą zatem żeby Kremer uzyskał publiczne poparcie dla polityki Hitlera wobec kościoła. Untersturmfuehrer Gephardt daje Kremerowi dziewięć dni na wykonanie zadania... Jeśli mu się nie uda z powrotem wróci do piekła, z którego cudem udało mu się wydostać... (źródło: www.filmweb.pl)

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 English description

Country: Germany, Luxembourg
Genre: Drama, war
Year: 2004
Directory: Volker Schlöndorff
Screenplay: Eberhard Görner, Andreas Pflüger
Language: german

Plot outline:
Among the many horrific accounts of the Nazi era, Constantine Costa-Garvas's Amen (2003) raised serious questions about the silence of the Vatican. The Ninth Day (Der neunte tag), directed by Volker Schlöbdorff, provides a partial answer to that silence. When the film begins, Abbé Henri Kremer (played by Ulrich Matthes) is at Dachau in the "priest's block," forced to engage in calisthenics and hard labor without adequate food or water while enduring sadistic treatment for his crime of collaborating with the resistance. On January 15, 1942, Kremer is released and sent back to his hometown, Luxembourg, because the clever Nazi official in charge has a plan. A faithful Catholic, Untersturmführer Gebhardt (played by August Diehl) decided some years earlier that he could make a difference if he joined the Nazi Party rather than becoming a priest, but his continuing Catholicism now places him in danger, as he may be reassigned to be a commandant of a concentration camp if his plan founders. Thus, he tells Kremer that the "discharge" from Dachau is actually a nine-day leave of absence to consider making an important statement; if Kremer will affirm that one can both be a Catholic and a Nazi by agreeing to the Nazi occupation, then dialog will open between Berlin and the Vatican and priests at Dachau will be released. Kremer now has eight days to decide about the Faustian pact. The film then subtitles each day in a macabre countdown. Kremer's first instinct is to contact his superior, the Archbishop Philippe of Luxembourg (played by Hilmar Thate), but the latter feigns illness and will not see him. Kremer's brother Roger (played by Germain Wagner) and friends offer to take him to Switzerland, but he demurs, and his sister Marie (played by Bibiana Beglau) thereby avoids arrest. On the seventh day, the Archbishop finally agrees to see Kremer but offers no advice. Saying that he has not left the cathedral since the Nazis took over, he informs Kremer of the reason for the Vatican's silence: As is well known, many Jews converted to Christianity in Holland. Early in the Nazi occupation of Holland, the converts were ordered deported to concentration camps, whereupon the Bishop of Utrecht objected; in response, not only were Dutch priests deported but some 20,000 Gentile Catholics as well. Meanwhile, Kremer's deadline approaches. If he believes Gebhardt, many may be saved, but Catholicism will be discredited for sure. A lengthy subtitle at the end points out that the deathrate among the many who were in the "priest's block" at Dachau was fifty percent. Although Kremer is a fictional person, Jean Bernard, one of the surviving priests of Dachau, wrote an account of the story that is fictionalized in The Ninth Day. The Political Films Society has nominated The Ninth Day as best film exposé and best film on human rights of 2005. (source: http://www.geocities.com/polfilms/ninthday.html)

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 Deutsche beschreibung

Land: Deutschland, Luxembourg
Genre: Drama
Jahr: 2004
Regie: Volker Schlöndorff
Drehbuch: Eberhard Görner, Andreas Pflüger
Sprache: deutsch

Beschreibung:
Um seinen Bischof von den Vorteilen der Kollaboration mit den Deutschen zu überzeugen, gewährt die SS dem im Konzentrationslager Dachau einsitzenden, luxemburgischen Pfarrer Abbé Henri Kremer (Ulrich Matthes) neun Tage Hafturlaub. Ist er erfolgreich, lockt die Freiheit, sollte er zu fliehen versuchen, werden seine Mitgefangenen im sogenannten Pfarrerblock sterben. Täglich muss er sich bei dem gebildeten Gestapo-Chef Untersturmführer Gebhardt (August Diehl) melden. Zwischen den beiden Männern entwickelt sich ein intellektuelles Duell. (Quelle: kino.de)

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