Seconda guerra mondiale: l'ufficiale delle SS Kurt Gerstein cerca di informare Papa Pio XII degli ebrei inviati nei campi di sterminio. Il giovane sacerdote gesuita Riccardo Fontana lo aiuta... Leggi tuttoSeconda guerra mondiale: l'ufficiale delle SS Kurt Gerstein cerca di informare Papa Pio XII degli ebrei inviati nei campi di sterminio. Il giovane sacerdote gesuita Riccardo Fontana lo aiuta nella difficile missione di informare il mondo.Seconda guerra mondiale: l'ufficiale delle SS Kurt Gerstein cerca di informare Papa Pio XII degli ebrei inviati nei campi di sterminio. Il giovane sacerdote gesuita Riccardo Fontana lo aiuta nella difficile missione di informare il mondo.
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- QuizStefan Lux was a Jewish Czech journalist, who committed suicide in the general assembly room of the League of Nations during its session on July 3, 1936, to alert the world on the perils of German anti-Semitism. After shouting "C'est le dernier coup" ("This is the final blow") he shot himself with a revolver.
- BlooperAt the end of the film, on the screen we read that Gerstein's written testimony helped to validate the events of the Holocaust. Then, "Kurt Gerstein was rehabilitated 20 years later." He could not have not been "rehabilitated", since he was found hanged in his cell in 1945. "Rehabilitated" should have been "exonerated".
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Stephan Lux: [interrupting a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Geneve, 1936] My name is Stephan Lux. I am Jewish. The Jews are being persecuted in Germany and the world doesn't care.
[He draws a pistol]
Stephan Lux: I see no other way to reach people's hearts.
[He shoots himself]
- ConnessioniReferenced in Kaamelott: Amen (2005)
- Colonne sonoreThe Train I /II
Composed and arranged by Armand Amar
Orchestra:
Jean-Philippe Audin, Elsa Benabdallah, Igor Boranian, Fabien Boudot, Florent Bremond, Karen Brunon, Nathalie Carlucci, Hervé Cavellier, Emmanuel Gaugué, Thierry Köhl, Julien Leenhardt, Bobin Minalli Bella, Marthe Moinet, Yves Monciero, Philippe Morel, Amèlie Paradis, Emmanuel Raynaud, Alexandre Sauvaire
(P) & © 2002 Long Distance/France
This is noticeably a continental European film, with brilliant direction and dazzlingly good acting, more Gosford Park than Schindler's List in terms of pace. Indeed, this slow pace only highlights the frustration felt by the two main characters as they are continually beaten down by the well-meaning leaders of their Churches.
Frustration, interestingly, is the only lasting emotion inspired in the viewer. Dr Germaine Greer attributed this, wrongly, I believe, to the fact that the film "doesn't seem to go anywhere", highlighting the leitmotiv frame of a so-called 'goods' train on its way to an unseen destination as a representation of this lack of direction. I would venture to suggest, though, that a conclusion is precisely what the director, the justly renowned Costa Garvas, was trying to avoid - he does not straightjacket his characters plainly as either heroes or villains and the film closes with the issues of morality it has raised left open-ended. It is meant to be thought provoking, not moving; the viewer is meant to conclude for himself what was morally correct and what was not.
At the end of the film, I found myself wondering which of the characters was most right - for none, it would seem, have a sole handle on the moral high-ground and there are arguments that promote each character's actions over another's. Whatever way you see this film and whatever conclusion you draw, it is a production which will not let you sleep easy until you have been challenged on many issues of morality.
- patrickgilday
- 21 lug 2002
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- 103.000.000 FRF (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 274.299 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 16.284 USD
- 26 gen 2003
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- 8.419.052 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 12 minuti
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- 1.85 : 1