The ninth day
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The ninth day |
| Country of production | Germany , Luxembourg , Czech Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Volker Schlöndorff |
| script |
Eberhard Görner Andreas Pflüger |
| production | Jürgen Haase |
| music | Alfred Schnittke |
| camera | Tomas Erhart |
| cut | Peter R. Adam |
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The ninth day is a German film drama from 2004. The film, directed by Volker Schlöndorff , tells the story of clergymen critical of the regime and the persecution by the National Socialists .
Ulrich Matthes as a priest and August Diehl as an SS man can be seen in the main roles . Written abroad as: Devátý den (Czech), Le Neuvième jour (French), The Ninth Day (English).
action
The film is about a Luxembourgish, Catholic priest Abbé Henri Kremer, who is imprisoned in the National Socialist concentration camp Dachau in Bavaria . The basis is the autobiographical story "Pfarrerblock 25487" by Jean Bernard about his stay as a prisoner in the pastor's block of the Dachau concentration camp . Kremer is released from the Dachau concentration camp for nine days to persuade his superior, the Bishop of Luxembourg, Joseph Laurent Philippe , to cooperate with the German occupying forces . In the event of his escape, he is threatened with the murder of all of his fellow priests in the pastors' block of the camp. Kremer, who blames himself for not sharing a tiny supply of water with a sick inmate and who ultimately sought death in the camp fence, is pressured daily by Untersturmführer Gebhardt to carry out his assignment. Gebhardt himself was a budding Catholic priest who joined the SS shortly before his ordination . He is torn between his unconditional loyalty to the ideology of the National Socialists and the experiences he made while staying in a concentration camp in Eastern Europe. Kremer returns to the camp on the ninth day without having become the " Judas " Gebhardt wanted to make of him.
criticism
film-dienst 23/2004: Fictional drama based on an authentic concentration camp diary, which is staged as visually and acoustically oppressive, impressively played in the main roles, about the loneliness of an existential decision and with the thematization of guilt and forgiveness often overlooked dimensions of the genocide.
Awards
Biberach Film Festival 2004:
- Grand Prize : Volker Schlöndorff
Camerimage - XII International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography 2004 (Lódź, Poland):
- Nomination for the Golden Frog for the best camera work: Tomas Erhart
German Film Award 2005:
- Film award in the Best Production Design category : Ari Hantke
- Nomination for
- Best director: Volker Schlöndorff
- Best editing: Peter R. Adam
- Best male lead: Ulrich Matthes
- Best male lead: August Diehl
- Best script: Eberhard Görner and Andreas Pflüger
- Best sound design: Hubert Bartholomae and Gunnar Voigt
- Best feature film: Jürgen Haase
Fajr International Film Festival 2005:
- Crystal Simorgh for the best film in the international competition: Volker Schlöndorff
German Camera Prize 2005:
- Nomination in the feature film category : Tomas Erhart
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- The ninth day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The ninth day at Filmportal.de
- official website for the film
- Excerpts from " Jean Bernard, Pfarrerblock 25487 (1945 Memoir) ", Luxembourg 1962
- Film booklet of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (PDF)
literature
- Jürgen Haase and Léon Zeches (eds.): The ninth day. Pastor's Block 25487 ; édition saint-paul (2004), ISBN 2-87963-498-9
- Józef Niewiadomski : “Mysterium fascinosum” in the midst of the mysterium tremendum. The ninth day and the transforming power of the Eucharist . In: Dietmar Regensburger et al. (Ed.): Paradise now !? Politics-religion-violence in the mirror of the film . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-531-0 , pp. 149-171.