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Bonhoeffer
One of the few clear voices of resistance to Hitler in 1930s Germany was also a rare dissenter from the tacit collaborators of the era`s Christian churches: theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose efforts are chronicled in this film from director Marti... One of the few clear voices of resistance to Hitler in 1930s Germany was also a rare dissenter from the tacit collaborators of the era`s Christian churches: theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose efforts are chronicled in this film from director Martin Doblmeier. A pacifist, author, and leader of the Confessing Church, Bonhoeffer wrote and preached against the Nazi regime, using a radical new theology rooted in a mixture of traditional Christian thought, the African-American gospel of Harlem`s Abyssinian Church, Gandhi`s pragmatic nonviolence, and a clear-eyed response to the Nazi racism in his native Germany.Doblmeier examines Bonhoeffer`s journey from novice theology student to coconspirator in a major plot to assassinate Hitler using the documentary style popularized by Ken Burns: narration accompanying slow pans across still photographs alternating with talking-head interviews with both his contemporaries (including several of Bonhoeffer`s surviving students) and his spiritual/philosophical inheritors, such as South Africa`s Bishop Desmond Tutu.
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