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Movie Review: ‘Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.’
CR: Catholic Review ^ | Nov 2024 | Kurt Jensen

Posted on 08/08/2025 12:27:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Speaking about Bonhoeffer to a reporter in 1970, Bethge said, “Americans make him a saint without seeing him as a man who had a dirty job to do.” Namely, plotting Hitler’s assassination and the overthrow of his tyrannical government.

“Yes, he is a modern saint,” Bethge continued. “But it has little to do with the old idea of sanctity and purity. He was a man of action whose sharp theological insights and Christian responsibility compelled him to act decisively in the real world of dirt, difficulty and danger.”

The primary weakness in Komarnicki’s depiction of Bonhoeffer is that, as played by Jonas Dassler, he comes across as a wholly unconflicted clerical commando, eager to take on his “dirty job.” This seemingly ignores the “peace ethic” to which Bonhoeffer was committed as well as his opposition to war in general, a stance he believed was directly commanded by God.

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TOPICS: History; Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: angelstudios; bonhoeffer; dietrichbonhoeffer; moviereview

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Have yet to see the film…
1 posted on 08/08/2025 12:27:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Apparently it does not do justice to the great bio by Eric Metaxas.


2 posted on 08/08/2025 12:43:36 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

This is the first time I’ve heard that Bonhoeffer was an assassin and spy.


3 posted on 08/08/2025 12:52:44 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
I saw a discussion Eric Metaxas had on the movie.

According to Metaxas, Bonhoeffer had been trying to get more of the Christians in Germany to speak out against the Nazis, but by as early as the mid 1930s, they had simply lost too much ground to recover.

4 posted on 08/08/2025 2:02:43 PM PDT by Captain Walker ("Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." – Proverbs 14:34)
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To: nwrep
"Apparently it does not do justice..."

The movie version never lives up to the book, and this book was so good any movie version would leave us underwhelmed.

5 posted on 08/08/2025 4:24:00 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: nwrep

Great read. I have read it more than once.


6 posted on 08/08/2025 5:20:33 PM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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