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2002 German/French/Romanian film directed by Costas-Gavras which explores the links between UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and the {{Vatican}} through the eyes of two characters - the RealLife [[ThoseWackyNazis Waffen-SS]] Officer Kurt Gerstein, and a fictional young Jesuit priest named Riccardo Fontana.
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2002 German/French/Romanian film directed by Costas-Gavras Costa-Gavras which explores the links between UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and the {{Vatican}} through the eyes of two characters - the RealLife [[ThoseWackyNazis Waffen-SS]] Officer Kurt Gerstein, and a fictional young Jesuit priest named Riccardo Fontana.
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* BlatantLies: The various cover stories used to hide the Holocaust.
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* BlatantLies: The various cover stories used to hide the Holocaust. Holocaust.
* BreakingSpeech: The Doctor gives a couple.
* BreakingSpeech: The Doctor gives a couple.
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* HannibalLecture: The Doctor gives a couple.
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2002 German/French/Romanian film directed by Costas-Gavras which explores the links between NaziGermany and the {{Vatican}} through the eyes of two characters - the RealLife [[ThoseWackyNazis Waffen-SS]] Officer Kurt Gerstein, and a fictional young Jesuit priest named Riccardo Fontana.
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2002 German/French/Romanian film directed by Costas-Gavras which explores the links between NaziGermany UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and the {{Vatican}} through the eyes of two characters - the RealLife [[ThoseWackyNazis Waffen-SS]] Officer Kurt Gerstein, and a fictional young Jesuit priest named Riccardo Fontana.
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* CorruptChurch: Zig-Zagged. The film is certainly critical of the apathy of the upper echelons of the Catholic Church in the face of the mass murders, but also portrays the efforts of individual clergy to hide Roman Jews and Gypsies in monasteries and abbeys.
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* CorruptChurch: CorruptChurch / SaintlyChurch: Zig-Zagged. The film is certainly critical of the apathy of the upper echelons of the Catholic Church in the face of the mass murders, but also portrays the efforts of individual clergy to hide Roman Jews and Gypsies in monasteries and abbeys.
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* DownerEnding: All of Riccardo and Kurt's efforts come to naught, [[spoiler: Riccardo is gassed at Auschwitz, Kurt is implicated by the Denazification Courts for his membership of the [=SS=], despite his efforts to expose the Holocaust, and he commits suicide out of guilt and despair. And in the final scene, the Doctor is shown preparing to catch a boat to Argentina.]]
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* DownerEnding: All of Riccardo and Kurt's efforts come to naught, [[spoiler: Riccardo is gassed at Auschwitz, Kurt is implicated by the Denazification Courts for his membership of the [=SS=], despite his efforts to expose the Holocaust, and he commits suicide out of guilt and despair. And in In the final scene, the Doctor is shown preparing to catch a boat to Argentina.]]
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* TitleDrop: The Doctor gives Riccardo a HannibalLecture, claiming that the Nazis are the new "chosen people", to which the priest responds with a bitterly ironic "Amen!"
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* TitleDrop: The Doctor gives Riccardo a HannibalLecture, BreakingSpeech, claiming that the Nazis are the new "chosen people", to which the priest responds with a bitterly ironic "Amen!"
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* DrivenToSuicide: Stephan Lux. [[spoiler: And later, Kurt himself.]]
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* TheIdealist: Both protagonists sincerely believe in the power of public opinion and of the church to put a stop to the atrocities. [[DespairEventHorizon At first]].
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: The Doctor remarks after witnessing a gassing that it is "quite horrible", but believes it is necessary to subdue his conscience for the sake of the ideals of Nazism.
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* BadassPreacher: Bishop von Galen, who storms unannounced into the local Nazi [=HQ=] and to file a complaint against the murder of the disabled, and threatens to alert the faithful if the euthanasia programme does not immediately cease. This was an extremely risky move, and the Doctor is later heard hoping to have some "time alone" with the bishop after the war is won.
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* BadassPreacher: Bishop von Galen, who storms unannounced into the local Nazi [=HQ=] and to file a complaint against the murder of the disabled, and threatens to alert the faithful if the euthanasia programme does not immediately cease. This was an extremely risky move, and the Doctor is later heard hoping to have some "time alone" with the bishop after the war is won.
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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: The film's final scene.
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* TheSocialDarwinist: The Doctor, who in one scene shows up at Kurt's house with chocolates to celebrate Darwin's birthday.
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* TitleDrop: The Doctor gives Riccardo a HannibalLecture, claiming that the Nazis are the new "chosen people", to which the priest responds with a bitterly ironic "Amen!"
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* TitleDrop: The Doctor gives Riccardo a HannibalLecture, claiming that the Nazis are the new "chosen people", to which the priest responds with a bitterly ironic "Amen!""Amen!"
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Kurt is frequently praised for his effective "disinfection" techniques by high-ranking members of the [=SS=]. He himself finds the crimes he unwittingly helped to commit horrific.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Kurt is frequently praised for his effective "disinfection" techniques by high-ranking members of the [=SS=]. He himself finds the crimes he unwittingly helped to commit horrific.
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* [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Screw The Rules, He's Doing What's Right]]: When one of the cardinals expresses outrage that Riccardo has requested a papal audience for a man who is not only an [=SS=] officer, but a traitor to his country, Riccardo replies;
--> "Some betrayals are the last resort of the just."
--> "Some betrayals are the last resort of the just."
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* BadassPreacher: Bishop von Galen, who storms unannounced into the local Nazi [=HQ=] and announces that he is filing to file a complaint against the murder of the disabled, and threatens to alert the faithful if the euthanasia programme does not immediately cease. This was an extremely risky move, and the Doctor is later heard hoping to have some "time alone" with the bishop after the war is won.
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* BadassPreacher: Bishop von Galen, who storms unannounced into the local Nazi [=HQ=] and announces that he is filing a complaint against the murder of the disabled, and threatens to alert the faithful if the euthanasia programme does not immediately cease. This was an extremely risky move, and the Doctor is later heard hoping to have some "time alone" with the bishop after the war is won.
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* RaisedCatholic: The Doctor claims to be "a bit Catholic".
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Two characters. It is implied that Father Riccardo Fontana, who is portrayed by half-Jewish actor Mathieu Kassovitz, is from a family of converts. The Gersteins also suspect that their maid is Jewish, but do not ask her, or convey their suspicions to any authorities.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Two characters. It is implied that Father Riccardo Fontana, who is portrayed by half-Jewish actor Mathieu Kassovitz, is from a family of converts. The Gersteins also suspect that their maid Mrs Hinze is Jewish, but do not ask her, or convey their suspicions to any authorities.
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: Following the war, Gerstein was implicated by the Denazification courts for his membership of the [=SS=] and for involvement in the Holocaust. It was decades before he was absolved of wrongdoing, as the suggestion that a
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* NaziProtagonist: Kurt Gerstein wasn't just a Nazi - he was a member of the [=SS=], the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust.
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* NaziProtagonist: Kurt Gerstein wasn't just a did join the Nazi party in 1933, but disagreed with a lot of their more extreme positions, and was actually expelled in 1936 for distributing anti-Nazi material - he was however a member of the [=SS=], the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust.
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However, when Father Fontana hears Gerstein's story, he vows to alert Pope Pius [=XII=] in person, as the two men are certain that a clear condemnation from the Holy Father will rouse German Catholics into action once again. Meanwhile, Gerstein returns to Poland to observe the mass murder and provide further testimony. He tells Father Fontana, "I will be the eyes of God in that hell." But he quickly finds himself unable to passively watch, and begins risking his life to sabotage and slow down the killing in any way he can.
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However, when Father Fontana hears Gerstein's story, he vows to alert [[ThePope Pope Pius [=XII=] XII]] in person, as the two men are certain that a clear condemnation from the Holy Father will rouse German Catholics into action once again. Meanwhile, Gerstein returns to Poland to observe the mass murder and provide further testimony. He tells Father Fontana, "I will be the eyes of God in that hell." But he quickly finds himself unable to passively watch, and begins risking his life to sabotage and slow down the killing in any way he can.
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* MasterPoisoner: Kurt Gerstein, albeit unintentionally.
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: "The Doctor".
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* KillTheCutie: Kurt's cheerful, mentally disabled niece Bertha is murdered during the Aktion [=T4=] euthanisia programme at the beginning of the film.
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* KillTheCutie: Kurt's cheerful, mentally disabled niece Bertha is murdered during the Aktion [=T4=] euthanisia euthanasia programme at the beginning of the film.film.
* NaiveNewcomer: At the start of the film, Kurt is a relatively new member of the [=SS=], and a hopelessly naive one at that, from the audience's perspective.
--> '''Kurt:''' I don't think the [=SS=] are in the business of killing children.
* NaiveNewcomer: At the start of the film, Kurt is a relatively new member of the [=SS=], and a hopelessly naive one at that, from the audience's perspective.
--> '''Kurt:''' I don't think the [=SS=] are in the business of killing children.
