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Amen.
''Amen.'' is a 2002 historical war drama film directed and co-written by Costa-Gavras. Based on the play ''The Deputy'' by Rolf Hochhuth, the film examines the political and diplomatic relationship between the Vatican and Nazi Germany during World War II. It stars Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Mühe, Ion Caramitru, and Marcel Iureş. It was a co-production between French, German, and Romanian studios. The film premiered at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Golden Bear. It was nominated for seven César Awards, including for Best Film and Best Director, and won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Costa-Gavras and Jean-Claude Grumberg). Plot During World War II, Kurt Gerstein, a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designs programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin. He is shocked to learn that the process he has developed to eradicate typhus, by using a hydrogen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Mühe
Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (; 20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film '' Das Leben der Anderen'' (''The Lives of Others'', 2006), for which he received the gold award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, at the ''Deutscher Filmpreis'' (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards. After leaving school, Mühe was employed as a construction worker and a border guard at the Berlin Wall. He then turned to acting, and from the late 1970s into the 1980s appeared in numerous plays, becoming a star of the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin. He was active in politics and denounced Communist rule in East Germany in a memorable address at the Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification he continued to appear in a large number of films, television prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armand Amar
Armand Amar (born 1953) is a French composer, who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2008 César Award for Best Music for ''Le Concert'' (Radu Mihăileanu). Life and career Armand Amar is a French composer living in Paris. In 1968, he began playing the congas. He also practiced the tabla and the zarb in the following years. In 1976 he met South African choreographer Peter Goss, who introduced him to dance. In the subsequent years, he worked with a number of choreographers in contemporary dance. His works are focused particularly on Eastern music. He is the author of several ballets and soundtracks films such as ''The Trail'', '' Days of Glory'', ''Live and Become'', ''The First Cry'', ''Earth from Above'', '' Bab'Aziz'' and ''Home''. Since '' Amen.'', he has also collaborated with Costa-Gavras scoring all of his subsequent films. He founded the label Long Distance in 1994 with his partners Alain Weber and Peter Gabriel. Compositions Films * 2002: '' Amen.'' by Costa-Gavras * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and social themes, such as the political thriller '' Z'' (1969), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Missing'' (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French; however, six of them were made in English. His film ''Z'' was the first film, and one of the few, to be nominated for both the Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film. Early life Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Athens after the war. His father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Deputy
''The Deputy, a Christian tragedy'' (German: ''Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel''), also published in English as ''The Representative '', is a controversial 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth which portrayed Pope Pius XII as having failed to take action or speak out against the Holocaust. It has been translated into more than twenty languages. The play's implicit censure of a venerable if controversial pope has led to numerous counterattacks, of which one of the latest is the 2007 allegation that Hochhuth was the dupe of a KGB disinformation campaign. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' assesses the play as "a drama that presented a critical, unhistorical picture of Pius XII" and Hochhuth's depiction of the pope having been indifferent to the Nazi genocide as "lacking credible substantiation." The first English translation by Robert David MacDonald was published as ''The Representative'', by Methuen in Britain in 1963. In America a second translation by Richard Winston and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Grumberg
Jean-Claude Grumberg (born 1939) is a French playwright and author of children's books. Early life Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs, including working as a tailor. This work provided the setting for his best-known play, ''L'Atelier''. He discovered drama as an actor in a theatrical company. His career as a writer began in 1968 with ''Demain, une fenêtre sur rue'', and short theatrical pieces such ''Rixe,'' which was staged at the Comédie-Française. In several of his works, he has written about what has haunted him since childhood: the death of his father in the Nazi death camps: ''Maman revient pauvre orphelin'', ''Dreyfus'' (1974), ''L'Atelier'' (1979) and ''Zone libre'' (1990). In 1998, ''L'Atelier'' returned to Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, achieved great success, and won the 1999 Molière for best play direction. His screenplay credits include, ''Les Années Sandwiches'', coauthor with François Truffaut of ''The Last Metro'', ''La P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
52nd Berlin International Film Festival
The 52nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 6 to 17, 2002. The festival opened with ''Heaven'' by Tom Tykwer. New print of Charlie Chaplin's 1940 American satirical dramedy film ''The Great Dictator'' was the closing film of the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to British–Irish film ''Bloody Sunday'' directed by Paul Greengrass and Japanese Animated film ''Spirited Away'' directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The retrospective dedicated to European films from the 1960s titled ''European 60s'' was shown at the festival. Dieter Kosslick became the director of the festival, taking over from Moritz de Hadeln. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Mira Nair, director and screenwriter (India) - Jury President * Nicoletta Braschi, actress (Italy) * Peter Cowie, historian and writer (United Kingdom) * Renata Litvinova, actress, director and screenwriter (Russia) * Lucrecia Martel, director and screenwriter (Argent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Gerstein
Kurt Gerstein (11 August 1905 – 25 July 1945) was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the ''Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS'' (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS). After witnessing mass murders in the Belzec and Treblinka Nazi extermination camps, Gerstein gave a detailed report to Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter, as well as to Swiss diplomats, members of the Roman Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII, and to the Dutch government-in-exile, in an effort to inform the international community about the Holocaust as it was happening. In 1945, following his surrender, he wrote the ''Gerstein Report'' covering his experience of the Holocaust. He died of an alleged suicide while in French custody. Biography Kurt Gerstein was born in Münster, Westphalia on 11 August 1905, the sixth of seven children in a Prussian middle-class family, described as strongly chauvinistic and "totally compliant to authority". His father, Ludwig, a former Pru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Koch
Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German television and film actor. He is known for roles in the 2007 Academy Award-winning film ''The Lives of Others'', in Steven Spielberg's '' Bridge of Spies'', and as Otto Düring in the fifth season of the Showtime series ''Homeland''. Childhood Koch grew up in Stuttgart with his mother who was a single parent. He originally wanted to be a musician, but production by artistic director Claus Peymann influenced him in the late 1970s to change careers to become an actor. Career Theatre From 1982 to 1985, Koch studied at the renowned Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. In addition to his cinematic work, he played a diversity of different roles on stage. Koch portrayed amongst other Peer Gynt and Leonce in ''Leonce and Lena'' at the municipal theatre of Darmstadt. At the Schiller theatre in Berlin he played the character Roller in Schiller's ''The Robbers'' and Orest in Goethe's '' Iphigenie auf Tauris''. A couple of years later, he too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz (; born 3 August 1967) is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for '' See How They Fall'' (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for ''La Haine'' (1995). He also received Best Director and Best Writing nominations. Early life He is the son of Peter Kassovitz, a director and writer, and Chantal Rémy, a film editor. His mother is a French Catholic, while his father is a Hungarian Jew who fled during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Mathieu has described himself as "not Jewish but I was brought up in a world of Jewish humor". Career Filmmaker As a filmmaker, Kassovitz has made several artistic and commercial successes. He wrote and directed ''La Haine'' (''Hate'', 1996), a film dealing with themes around class, race, violence, and police brutality. The film won the César Award for Best Film and netted Kassovitz th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Boncea
Andrei Boncea is a Romanian film producer. Boncea is the co-founder of the Romanian film production company FRAME FILM and the theatre company WONDER THEATRE. He served as VP of Content of CME / Central European Media Enterprises and Head of Media Pro Entertainment between 2008 and 2014. From 1998 to 2007 he served as General Director of MediaPro Pictures, one of the leading film and television studios in Eastern Europe. Producing work He was a producer for '' Amen.'', directed by Costa Gavras, '' Callas Forever'', directed by Franco Zeffirelli, '' Modigliani'', directed by Mick Davis, starring Andy García, and 2006 Academy Award nominee for Foreign Film ''Merry Christmas'', directed by Christian Carion. He has also produced Romanian films such as '' Furia'', directed by Radu Muntean, and ''California Dreamin''', directed by Cristian Nemescu, and television series for Romanian TV channels PRO TV and Acasă TV. He recently served as executive producer for '' The Protégé'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Blossier
Patrick Blossier (born 23 September 1946) is a French cinematographer. He contributed to more than seventy films since 1976. Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blossier, Patrick 1946 births Living people Cinematographers from Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Hochhuth
Rolf Hochhuth (; 1 April 1931 – 13 May 2020) was a German author and playwright, best known for his 1963 drama '' The Deputy'', which insinuates Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, and he remained a controversial figure both for his plays and other public comments and for his 2005 defense of British Holocaust denier David Irving. Life and career Youth Hochhuth was born in Eschwege, and was descended from a Protestant Hessian middle class family. His father was the owner of a shoe‐factory, which became bankrupt in the Depression. During World War II, he was a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk, a subdivision of the Hitler Youth. In 1948 he did an apprenticeship as a bookseller. Between 1950 and 1955 he worked in bookshops in Marburg, Kassel and Munich. At the same time he attended university lectures as a guest student and began with early attempts at writing fiction. Between 1955 and 1963 he was an editor at a major West-German publishing house. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
