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The movie is about Kurt Gersteein. He is a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute. He is shocked when he knows that the process he has developed is now being used to kill Jews. He tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews who is sent to concentration camps. Only Young Jesuit priest Ricardo Fontana helps him.
2 March 1971, Moscow, USSR
7 November 1940, Romania
21 January 1973, Bucuresti, Romania
26 February 1940, Bucharest, Romania
27 October 1947, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
30 October 1978, Onesti, Romania
14 August 1952, Bucharest, Romania
30 June 1942, Kwassitz, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Kvasice, Moravia, Czech Republic]
30 November 1974, Rostock, German Democratic Republic
20 June 1953, Grimma, East Germany
12 January 1974, Vienna, Austria
29 November 1938, Valenciennes, Nord, France
8 February 1944, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
1 August 1952, Târgu Jiu, Gorj, Romania
20 April 1944, Lünen, Germany
15 November 1960, Hamburg, Germany
September 23, 2003
a sputtering, wet firecracker
May 28, 2003
Costa-Gavras' political thrillers used to jab and thrust with lethal efficiency. This one just pounds against a heavy bag, huffing and puffing all the way.
May 01, 2003
In a remarkably subtle turn, the German Tukur is convincing as [Gerstein].
July 25, 2003
Costa-Gavras deserves credit for staying the course; in a time when most European film directors are wringing their hands, he's still pointing fingers.
April 11, 2003
What should have been agonizing in its impact comes off as wooden, perhaps because Costa-Gavras works in schematic fashion, spoon-feeding us issues while skimming the historical surface.
August 01, 2003
It's so inert, so slow-moving that it seems at least twice as long as it really is, and it manages to waste a potentially fascinating premise.
August 01, 2003
Costa-Gavras often shortchanges the story's inherent drama for talky and strident speechifying.
August 12, 2003
Though such elements might chip away somewhat at Amen's seriousness of intent, they do add fire to the stimulating drama.
August 27, 2003
Though Costa-Gavras brings nothing new to the table about the Holocaust, he puts another nail down in the argument that the world could have acted but didn't because of indifference.
July 16, 2003
Extremely heavy-handed, almost comically repetitious, and way too long.
June 27, 2003
Tukur's performance is the centerpiece of the movie; it's a wonderful mixture of outrage and swiftly disappearing naivete.
March 14, 2003
Amen., a docudrama rather than a documentary, is clearly guided by Shoah's example, asking us to reflect on the Holocaust and what made it possible rather than simply recoil from it.
