Dietrich Bonhoeffer: We have no defense against stupidity
Story
As the world teeters on the brink of destruction, Dietrich Bonhoeffer becomes involved in a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and destiny to save millions of Jews from genocide. Niemoeller played actor August Diehl previously as a merciless Gestapo officer in Nemilosrdni (2009) and a German citizen who resists conscription into the German army in Skriveni život (2019).
Arguing is useless
It cannot be touched by protest or force. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply not be believed – indeed, the stupid can counter them by criticizing them, and if they cannot be refuted, they can be set aside as minor exceptions.
"A literary parable" This is a solid 7; The historicity is very well woven, and the fictional story of his death is deeply Christian and powerful
But as a biography, the basic errors (referring to the Eastern Front years before Barbarossa) and the final scene of his death with his co-conspirators from Flossenburg to an anonymous isolated farmhouse with a random group of strangers are a bridge. Sometimes Germany limits such things, but I missed the point of not using Flossenburg for those critical scenes, as in Sophie Scholl – The Last Days, where Scholl was killed by the actual guillotine.
The late quotations are more than worth the time spent watching the cavalry troop
At times, Bonhoeffer simply doesn’t come across as the scholarly theologian he was, but rather as an evidence-oriented Protestant. That is to say, this is a "must-see" if you are willing to accept extensive deviations from history and don’t expect a deep theological journey.
And that is a truly timeless message
Bonhoeffer reminds us that every generation faces its evil; that each person must either act or allow evil to prevail; that Christ guides that choice.
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