I have recently seen 'Amen' which I really enjoyed very much. It is an excellent movie that shows us the brutality and cruelty of the Nazis and the silence of the Vatican and some Protestant churches in the Holocaust. As a Catholic, it shocked me how the Vatican, lots of priests and nuns helped the Nazis in their madness of killing Jews (mostly) and other people such as gipsies, homosexual persons etc. It is not an offense to the Catholic church to say the truth about what was going on during those terrible years, this is why I do not agree with the reaction of the Vatican towards this film. Everybody must know that the Pope Pie XII and lots of priests, cardinals and nuns kept silent, althoug I must admit that other Catholics really helped the Jews. Finally the perfomance of the German actor Ulrich Tukur was wonderful. He should have won the prize of best actor in the European movie festival celebrated in Rome because he expressed very well the feeling of horror when he found the killings of the Jews. The rest of the actors are good too, but Ulrich's perfomance was the best one without the slightest doubt. Moreover he is very attractive in uniform!!
Review of Amen.
