| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (132 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
021122 |
| Note |
In Process Record. |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
| Event |
Originally produced by Cohen Film Collection in 2002. |
| Summary |
Amen. examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur), a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designing 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 cyanide mixture called Zyklon B, is now being used for killing Jews in extermination camps. Gerstein attempts to notify Pope Pius XII (Marcel Iures) about the gassings, but is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic hierarchy. The only person moved is Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz), a young Jesuit priest.. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Subject |
Foreign language films
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Motion pictures
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| Indexed Term |
European/Baltic Studies |
| Genre |
European/Baltic Studies |
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Feature films
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| Added Author |
Cohen Film Collection (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
1236077 Kanopy |
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