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Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army. Soon after, however, he is asked to help with a "special project" involving fumigation of "vermin infested" areas behind the front lines. Gerstein develops Zyklon-B, a deadly chemical gas which ... [+]
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January 28, 2006
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Buen relato, bien conducido, Amén, la película de Costa Gavras (2002), basada en una novela alemana, presenta el drama de la lucha del individuo con la institución (por un lado la SS, por otro la Iglesia Católica), aunque compartan la nacionalidad o el discurso de base (la religión cristiana). La institución no puede pensar como el individuo, piensa en términos políticos (de poder). Y el hilo se corta por lo más delgado.