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In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.
Two systems: the Nazi machine versus the Vatican and Allied diplomacy. Two men struggling from the inside. On one side, Kurt Gerstein, a real-life chemist and SS officer, supplied the death camps with Zyklon B while he tirelessly denounced the crimes and alerted the Allies, the Pope, the Germans and their churches at his familys and his own risk. On the other, Ricardo Fontana, a young Jesuit, a fictitious character who represents all the priests who had the heart to struggle against savagery, often paying for their courage with their lives. Countless priests, some known, others anonymous, who simply were not content to live with the silence of their churchs hierarchy.
Ulrich Tukur
Kurt Gerstein
Mathieu Kassovitz
Riccardo Fontana
Ulrich Mühe
Doctor
Michel Duchaussoy
Cardinal
Ion Caramitru
Count Fontana
Marcel Iures
Pope
Friedrich von Thun
Gerstein's Father
Antje Schmidt
Mrs. Gerstein
Hanns Zischler
Grawitz
Sebastian Koch
Höss
Erich Hallhuber
Von Rutta
Burkhard Heyl
Director
Angus MacInnes
Tittman
Bernd Fischerauer
Bishop von Galen
Pierre Franckh
Pastor Wehr
Richard Durden
Ambassador Taylor
Monica Bleibtreu
Mrs. Hinze
Justus von Dohnányi
Baron Von Otter
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