It's WWII and the place is Auschwitz aka Hell on Earth.A group of prisoners, who were sent there for no other reason than that they were Jews, put God on trial.He seems to have abandoned the Jewish people.The question is: Why does God let this happen? God on Trial (2008) is a television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Andy de Emmony.The play is based on an event described by Elie Wiesel in his book The Trial of God.I haven't read that, but I am reading Dawn by Wiesel.This movie has got just the right actors to play their parts.Joseph Muir plays Kapo.Joseph Altin is Isaac.Ashley Artus plays Ricard.Alexi Kaye Campbell portrays Doctor.Dominic Cooper plays Moche.Rupert Graves plays Mordechai.Lorcan Cranitch is Blockaltester.Francois Guétary plays Jacques.David de Keyser plays the part of Hugo.Eddie Marsan is Lieble.Blake Ritson is Idek.Jack Shepherd plays Kuhn.Stellan Skarsgård portrays Baumgarten.This is a very intelligent drama about people in a situation not they all anyone else for that matter can understand.It's almost haunting to listen to Baumgarten telling his story.He tells how he was an anti-Semite, until he became a Jew because of his Jewish father he didn't know.And the ending is sad and haunting.The prisoners sent to their death say a Jewish prayer, and we see them among the people of our day, who are visiting Auschwitz as tourists.If you want to watch something that will make you think, you should watch this.
Review of God on Trial
