Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
2000, 108 minutes, Rated M
A true story of Love, Courage and Sacrifice.
The inmate of cell 92 at Berlin's Military prison in 1943/44 was not an ordinary prisoner. For the Gestapo, he was a very special person - Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer - a 37-year-old theologian, university lecturer and priest who was allowed to teach, preach and publish Nazi Germany. Arrested under the suspicion of conspiracy against the "Fuehrer" and after an odyssey through several concentration camps, Bonhoeffer was executed at dawn on April 9, 1945, less than a month away from Germany's surrender.
It is the true story about the last six years in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life - the story of one of the most extraordinary human beings of our century - an "Agent of Grace". His descent from an upper-class family and his own distinguished academic career in the U.S. made him suspect for treason. After coming back from the States the confessing priest became involved as a courier for the secret resistance group - even prepared to kill Hitler himself.
Just then he meets the 18-years-old Maria who will be the love of his life. On short occasions they can see each other, fall in love but keep writing letters, until he has been arrested. Maria searches for Dietrich in vain. But she never sees him again.
It is an emotional movie about a man who starts out an inspired, courageous clergyman and later become first a political conspirator and then a martyr.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become a symbol of civil courage and indomitable faith.
- Director:
- Eric Till [5],
- Starring:
- R.H. Thomson [2], Robert Joy [10], Johanna Klante [1], Tatjana Blacher [1], Ulrich Tukur [4],
- Language and Sound:
- English
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