Ion Caramitru is a Actor Roumain born on 9 march 1942 at Bucharest (Roumanie)
Ion Caramitru
Ion Caramitru participated to
10 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
1 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
, 2h15
Directed by Costa-GavrasOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films about religion,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Films based on playsActors Ulrich Tukur,
Mathieu Kassovitz,
Ion Caramitru,
Michel Duchaussoy,
Ulrich Mühe,
Marcel IureșRoles Graf Fontana
Rating71%
The film Amen. examines the links between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. The central character is Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur), a Waffen-SS officer employed in the SS Hygiene Institute, designing programs for the purification of water and the destruction of vermin. He is shocked to learn that the process he has developed to eradicate typhus, by using a hydrogen cyanide mixture called Zyklon B, is now being used for killing Jews in extermination camps. Gerstein attempts to notify Pope Pius XII (Marcel Iureş) about the gassings, but is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic hierarchy. The only person moved is Riccardo Fontana (Mathieu Kassovitz), a young Jesuit priest. Fontana and Gerstein attempt to raise awareness about what is happening to the Jews in Europe but even after Fontana appealing to the pope himself, the Vatican makes only a timid and vague condemnation of Hitler and Nazi Germany.