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Cast
- Ulrich MatthesAbbé Henri Kremer
- August DiehlUntersturmführer Gebhardt
- Hilmar ThateBischof Philippe
- Bibiana BeglauMarie Kremer
- Germain WagnerRoger Kremer
- Jean-Paul RathsRaymond Schmitt
- Ivan Jiřík
- Götz Burger
- Michael König
- Karel Dobrý
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
This is moviemaking on the highest dramatic, psychological, and moral plane. - 80
Variety
A thoughtfully written drama of ideas with vivid performances by August Diehl and Ulrich Matthes. - 80
The New Yorker
Powerful, concise, fully sustained. - 80
The A.V. Club
It's important for the film to establish the concentration camp as a hell on earth from the start, but Schlöndorff has more in mind than creating another reminder of the inhumanity of fascism. - 75
New York Post
It doesn't measure up to Schlondorff's 1979 Oscar winner, "The Tin Drum," but it's compelling nevertheless. - 70
The New York Times
Succeeds in illuminating an almost unimaginably dark story. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
A grim meditation on faith and betrayal that focuses on a relatively obscure corner of Holocaust history: the fate of the Catholic clergy under the Third Reich. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The film is thought-provoking but not terribly involving.
