The Jewish cardinal

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Movie
German title The Jewish cardinal
Original title Le métis de Dieu
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2013
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ilan Duran Cohen
script Chantal de Rudder
production Joëy Faré
music Nathaniel Mechaly
camera Christophe Graillot
cut Elif Uluengin , Fabrice Rouaud
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The Jewish Cardinal (Original title: Le métis de Dieu ) is a French feature film by Ilan Duran Cohen from 2013, which is based on the life of Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger . The film mainly deals with the years 1979 to 2007 in Lustiger's life; showing his inner conflict as a Christian clergyman and a Jew, as well as his common struggle with Cardinal Albert Decourtray against the instrumentalisation of the murdered at Auschwitz by the Catholic Church .

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Father Lustiger is not a conventional Catholic clergyman. He smokes a lot and loves, drives a moped, reads comics, learned Hebrew and had his finger on the pulse of his congregation when he was named Bishop of Orléans by Pope John Paul II in 1979 . Between the lines, the film also tells something about the story of the young Aron Lustiger, who during his stay in Berlin in the 1930s found out about the Nazis' plans to murder all Jews. Back in his French hometown, nobody believes him. In 1940 the 14-year-old converted to Catholicism after a religious experience in the Sainte-Croix Cathedral - against the will of his Jewish parents.

For Father Lustiger, being a Jew was a private matter, but it became public after a Catholic newspaper reported about it as part of his appointment as bishop. In a dialogue with the newspaper editor, he makes it clear that he is and will remain a Jew. He ends his visit with the words: “I didn't want this fate, […] it happened to me. [...] I am a living provocation that forces many to fathom the essence of Christ. "

When Bishop Lustiger meets Pope John Paul II, he is enthusiastic about his nature and visions. Both share a similar worldview and the urge to reform the Catholic Church. Just a year after his appointment as bishop, he became Archbishop of Paris and later cardinal and advisor to the Pope.

In the 1990s, conservative Catholics tried to build a monastery adjacent to the site of the Auschwitz main camp . As part of his office in the Roman Curia , he ended this attempt to instrumentalize the murdered by the Catholic Church by finally persuading Pope John Paul II to issue a decree that caused the Carmelite nuns to give up the monastery. This cut made possible the continuation of the dialogue between the Catholic Church and Judaism and ended the international protests against the actions of the Carmelite nuns and the Catholic Church.

It was also his last will to bring Jews and Christians together after his death, which is why he decided that a mass should be held and a kaddish should be spoken. The film ends when his last will is written down.

Reviews

  • Jüdische Allgemeine , March 21, 2013: “Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger (1936–2007), Archbishop of Paris, was an exceptional Catholic churchman. The son of Polish Jews who immigrated to France was baptized as a Catholic at the age of 14 against the wishes of his parents, but he emphasized throughout his life that despite his conversion, he had always remained a son of Israel. As a cardinal, Lustiger, known by friends as 'Lulu', was one of the determined reformers of the Church in France, fighting against right-wing extremism, clericalism and dogmatism. Thanks to him, the restructuring of priestly training and theology studies as well as the opening of the Church to the media and the establishment of Catholic radio and television stations are due. He had been a member of the Académie Française since 1995 and a key player in Jewish-Catholic relations. […] The television film by the native Israeli Ilan Duran Cohen focuses on the clergy's analysis of his origins and on his strategic role between Christianity and Judaism. Especially after the death of his father and a visit to Auschwitz, Lustiger came to grips with the contradictions of his dual identity. When, 50 years after the Shoah, a monastery was established in the so-called 'theater' of Auschwitz - a church owned building, the back of which borders the surrounding wall of the camp - this aroused tremendous protest and outrage in the Jewish world. Lustiger (Laurent Lucas) has to take a stand, also against his friend and patron Pope John Paul II (Aurelién Recoing). "

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  1. ↑ See! . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , March 21, 2013.