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| THE NINTH DAY aka DER NEUNTE TAG | Search all of phase9.tv | |||
Year: 2002 USA: Kino International Cast: Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate, Bibiana Beglau, Germain Wagner, Jean-Paul Raths, Ivan Jirik Karel Hromadka, Miroslav Sichmann, Adolf Filip, Vladimir Fiser, Peter Varga, Petr Janis, Zdenek Pechácek, Vaclav Kratky, Marcel Svidrman, Karel Dobry, Götz Burger, Michael König, Vladimir Gut Director: Volker Schlöndorff Countries: Germany / Luxembourg Language: German (English subtitles) USA: 98 mins USA Release Date: 27 May 2005 (Limited Release - New York) Movie reviews Official website (in German) Synopsis From Volker Schlöndorf, director of the Academy Award-winning THE TIN DRUM, THE NINTH DAY is a heart-breaking story of a Catholic priest forced to choose between his ideals and his fellow clergymen held at Auschwitz. Abbé 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 Untersturmführer Gebhardt is under pressure from his superior to have the Abbé 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 Abbé around but when they don't work he resorts to more draconian measures. The Abbé is torn between his conscience and his horror of returning to Dachau... |
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