Bonhoeffer    

Director: Martin Doblmeier
Running Time: 90 Minutes     
USA 2003    

The New York Times review: ‘A touching narrative on the nature of faith. Powerful and shocking’

Six years in the making, this is the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the young German theologian and pacifist who became one of the first voices of resistance of Adolf Hitler.

Bonhoeffer is the unfolding of one man’s personal struggle to discern the will of God in the madness of Nazi Germany and the chaos of World War Two.

Through his story, universal questions arise about the nature of faith, the practicality of pacifism, and the role of the church in the modern world.

He was captured and executed weeks before the end of the war. He was 39 years old. Since his death, Bonhoeffer’s letters and books have emerged as some of the most important spiritual writings from the period.

Screening:

23 October 7.30 p.m. Rewley House Cinema