Movie Substrate · Film
Amen. (2002)
★ 7.0 · 374 ratings on TMDB
Two Men, Two Worlds, One Cause.
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
DirectorCosta-Gavras
The emergence reading
Amen. keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceFR
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
