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D
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Constantin
Costa-Gavras' lat-
est film may be
about history, but he made it
with an eye to the present.
Amen, which opens today
at Madstone Theaters in Ann
Arbor, is a damning portrait
of the Catholic Church's
unwillingness to speak out
against the Holocaust.
The film is based on Rolf
Hochhuth's 1962 play The
Deputy — which in turn is
based on the true story of a
German SS officer, Kurt
Clockwise from top: Director Costa-Gravas
Gerstein, and a young Jesuit
priest, Riccardo Fontana, who
Ulrich Tukur plays SS officer Kurt Gerstein.
tried unsuccessfully to persuade
the Catholic Church to crusade Mathieu Kassovitz, whose real-lift Jewish father,
Peter Kassovitz, directed "Jakob the Liar, portrays
against the murder of Jews.
Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana.
"Several movies have been
own people — to hear the news of Jews
made about the victims. I wanted to
being gassed by the tens of thousands.
make a movie about the other side,"
For Costa-Gavras, the lack of moral
Costa-Gavras says.
fortitude in standing up for those who
The Church, he says, "had the ability
are different is something he doesn't
to give direction to a majority of the
want repeated.
people. And they didn't do it."
When Amen opened in Germany,
Costa-Gavras is a native of Greece
who currently lives in France. It's Europe Catholic bishops threatened to sue over
posters that featured the cross and
that he tries to reach with Amen — not
swastika merged, blood red against a
only World War II-era Europe, but the
black background.
present as well.
The controversy is nothing new to
He's concerned about the recent rise of
anti-Semitism in Europe, which he attrib- Costa-Gavras. He won an Oscar for Best
Foreign Film in 1969 for Z based on
utes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict —
incidents in 1960s Greece, about a liber-
and with anti-Muslim sentiment as well.
al opposition leader who is killed in a
The anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant
suspicious accident. And his 1982 film,
sentiment that France has been grap-
pling with for the better part of a decade Missing, centers around the disappear-
ance of an American expatriate during
crested last year, when far-right leader
political turmoil in Latin America.
Jean-Marie Le Pen made the runoff in
As he puts it, "It's better to explore
the country's elections for a new prime
the world. And as far as I Lan do it, I
minister.
will."
The unwillingness to stand up for
those who are different is a theme he
explores in Amen.
Amen opens July 25 at Ann
In the film, Church officials, particu-
Arbor's Madstone Theaters, locat-
larly the controversial Pope Pius XII, are
ed in the Briarwood Mall. Info
portrayed as being too concerned with
and show times: (734) 994-5540.
protecting their own turf— and their
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