- "Abbe Kremer is released from a living hell in the Dachau concentration camp and sent home to Luxembourg. Upon his arrival, he soon learns that this is not a reprieve or a pardon of his crime - voicing opposition to the Nazis' racial laws - but that he has nine days to convince the bishop of Luxembourg to work with the Nazi occupiers. Gestapo Untersturmfuehrer Gebhardt is under pressure from his superior to have the Abbe succeed in creating a rift between the Luxembourg church and the Vatican - or be transferred to duty in the death camps in the East. Gebhardt, a former Catholic seminarian, uses theological arguments to bring the Abbe around but when they don't work he resorts to more draconian measures. The Abbe is torn between his conscience and his horror of returning to Dachau..."
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
The trailer for The Ninth Day, the new film from Volker Schloedorff (The Tin Drum)
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