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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Against stupidity we have no defense
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide. Actor Niemoeller August Diehl previously played an SS Gestapo officer in Ruthless Scum (2009) and a German citizen who resisted conscription into the German army in Skriveni život (2019)..
Reasoning is of no use
Neither protests nor force can touch it. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved – indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can only be brushed aside as trivial exceptions..
Well filmed and acted
However, the film spent an inordinate amount of time on Bonhoeffer’s 1930 trip to New York and his supposed fascination with gospel and jazz music. In fact, his later prison letters reveal the lasting influence of traditional Lutheran chorales and the hymns of Paul Gerhardt on his theology and piety.
All that said, it’s good that a film about Bonhoeffer was produced, bringing his story of the struggle for truth to a wider audience
There was no mention of his engagement to Maria von Wedemeyer (18 years his junior), with whom he exchanged dozens of letters during his imprisonment (1943–1945), and later published as “Love Letters from Cell 92.” It was Maria’s grandmother who financed the seminary of the Confessing Church at Finkenwalde, where Bonhoeffer advocated a kind of “new monasticism” for seminarians—with traditional chorales and an orderly prayer of the psalms. A plot that entangled Maria until the end of Bonhoeffer’s life would have raised some compelling questions, such as, Why get engaged if your world/world is about to end?
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