Schmidt : Imagine God is a surgeon, and he has to remove a gangrenous leg or an arm to cure the whole body. It's a violent act. It's painful. But it is also loving.
How would it be if we were living through a time like this? Not a punishment, a purification. Sign In. TV Movie 1h 26m. Drama War. Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the on Read all Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering. Director Andy De Emmony. Frank Cottrell Boyce. Top credits Director Andy De Emmony. See more at IMDbPro. Photos 6. Top cast Edit. Joseph Muir Kapo as Kapo. Josef Altin Isaac as Isaac. At times it is challenging but at others it seems less coherent and the "trial" structure weakens at these points.
It is very good at times though and it was a shame that in some regards the final bookend scene felt like too neat a summary of the questions considering the emotion that had gone before, not quite a cop-out perhaps but not a million miles away from it either. Where the film doesn't have a single problem is with the cast because every one of them is excellent.
So mostly God on Trial is excellent, full of passionate performances, engaging dialogue and a real sense of place. It is not a massive problem that it feels like it doesn't deliver in the end and that the final scene itself just feels weak and convenient, flying in the face of everything that had gone before. Not as perfect as some have suggested here but still a very good piece of television drama from BBC2.
Inmates at Auschwitz put god on trial for breaking the covenant. This was run earlier in the season as part of Masterpiece's theater modern block of tales. Based on an actual trial it is a deeply effecting story about a group of men attempting to find out why God has abandoned them and whether he has broken the agreement that he made with their forefathers.
It is set entirely within one barracks during the time that then are waiting to have their numbers called when those chosen will go off to die, for it seems that a train has arrived early and there is no place for the new arrivals. It is a heady discussion of despair and hope. Has god abandoned them? Does god exist? What is the nature of god? These are the thoughts of men waiting to die, men with little left to lose.
It is a discussion that will get your mind working. The answers they come up with might surprise you. The film will also touch you. I tend to be immune to Holocaust tales with name stars in it since the pretty faces never seem to be in anything more than a dress up tale, but here I was moved. I should point out that the film is cross cut across time with a tour of the barracks and the gas chambers now. The modern story is not intrusive and in its way it actually helps move things along with one of the final scenes very likely to bring tears to your eyes.
I highly recommend this film to anyone who wondered about god and the death of 12 million people or just about god in general.
Petey 1 April A group of prisoners, who were sent there for no other reason than that they were Jews, put God on trial. He seems to have abandoned the Jewish people. The question is: Why does God let this happen? I haven't read that, but I am reading Dawn by Wiesel. This movie has got just the right actors to play their parts. Joseph Muir plays Kapo. Joseph Altin is Isaac.
Ashley Artus plays Ricard. Alexi Kaye Campbell portrays Doctor. Dominic Cooper plays Moche. Rupert Graves plays Mordechai. Lorcan Cranitch is Blockaltester. David de Keyser plays the part of Hugo. Eddie Marsan is Lieble. Blake Ritson is Idek. Jack Shepherd plays Kuhn. This is a very intelligent drama about people in a situation not they all anyone else for that matter can understand.
It's almost haunting to listen to Baumgarten telling his story. He tells how he was an anti-Semite, until he became a Jew because of his Jewish father he didn't know. And the ending is sad and haunting. The prisoners sent to their death say a Jewish prayer, and we see them among the people of our day, who are visiting Auschwitz as tourists. If you want to watch something that will make you think, you should watch this. Most television dramas are a complete waste of time. The questions asked throughout the 84 minutes are right on target.
A group of prisoners at Auschwitz; some of whom are awaiting execution, the others unsure of their fate, debate the meaning of God's supposed covenant with the Jewish people. I was told that the Catholic Church was the one true one in my childhood. Muslims are taught that Allah is the true path. Hindus believe in another God. It leads us all on a dangerous path.
This film is made for people not afraid to search within themselves no matter what they believe. I was very impressed. Male-only gatherings are mostly pretty dismal affairs, rapidly descending into trivia, boorishness, rivalry, ribaldry, or in general the lowest common denominator. But each of us men has probably experienced - maybe just once or twice in our lives - a memorable-for-life meeting made up solely of members of one's own sex in which the superficialities are for once forgotten, and we get down to talking and thinking seriously on what really matters.
And there is something truly meaningful and memorable about that - so much so that it explains why veterans of World War One some of whom I spoke to myself said they "wouldn't have missed it" despite all the unending horror. Why does it mostly take such extreme circumstances to bring out something so worthwhile? That's just one of many conundra that "God on Trial" has to offer us from its corncuopia of amazing things The disgrace, evil, shame, hideousness that was Auschwitz was surely the most extreme circumstance ever engineered in which a down-to-earth discussion of the above kind could have taken place, yet it is potentially a true story that a mix of educated and less-educated, devout and less-devout, decent and less-decent men there really did decide to put God on trial.
They were the people supremely entitled and supremely qualified to do it And whether the above in real life was as mesmerisingly brilliant as in Frank Cottrell-Price's TV play is hard to know, and seems perhaps unlikely. For what we have here is erudite genius and nuance on a level rarely encountered on the screen. Of course, it features men surrounded by death and about to die, and those are the circumstances that should generate paranoia, mania and psychopathy, apathy or evil, rather than something of lasting beauty.
How fair is it that the original "trial" took place, and how fair is it to make a work of art out of that in ? Hard to say, but here we are Actors mostly still looking wellish-fed, it must be admitted are shaved and for much of the film dressed uniformly in their Auschwitz stripes. They have nothing left to rely on but their skills, and boy are those ever on show here! It's a breathtaking treat, offered to us on a one-time only basis in this configuration by actors British and Irish, Swedish, French and Polish.
Yet as they deliver their lines of erudition and exasperation, fear and faith, we somehow get a flickering and presumably authentic vision of mercy, gentleness, decency, openness, willingness to communicate, desire to understand that is transfixing in the middle of all the fear and awfulness.
There is an intense beauty in it and it's utterly surprising. Amazingly, Jewish-style wisecracks are not entirely absent, so you will get the odd laugh out of this, which is just right for such a group of men even in an 11th-hour circumstance.
But the searching questions asked, the observations made, will bring out the tears in the toughest watcher - and again that is as much a matter of the gravitas of those eternal questions as it is of the harrowing stories people have to tell, and their dreadful current and upcoming experiences at the infamous Auschwitz. The ending here is only one this is an extermination camp , yet the film takes a remarkable last-scene turn, and there is so much subtlety to this that you would watch 5 times before picking it all up.
Although I warn about spoilers, and usually have no scruples about emphasising key details, here I am less inclined. But the way our heroes and heroic anti-heroes react at the last is a remarkable encapsulation in film of how good the very best of human beings and HUMAN behaviour can really be. Long ago I noticed the secret of Michelangelo's Christian rather than Jewish depiction of the Old Testament figures of God and Adam, in which God strains and stretches out to the hand of Adam, whose relative nonchalance is made plain by the slight limpness of his wrist.
God is doing most of the work here, clearly needing something from his creation. In the same vein, "God on Trial" puts a line into one of its characters to the effect that maybe God needs the best of what humanity can offer to be complete. Later, "God on Trial" goes pseudo-blasphemously further in suggesting - through both words and actions - that the very best and most beautiful things human beings can do seen so rarely and yet by no means never; and certainly on show in this final concentration-camp scene might complete God, and actualy round off some of those rougher edges regularly visible in the Old Testament and quoted at length here.
The master shapes the pupil in the hope that the latter might one day and in some way exceed the former. Being good or merciless comes with equal ease to an omnipotent being, but to a human being goodness may require a more supreme effort - and all the more so when faced with unmitigated evil. But that might leave it looking like a still-greater achievement!
So "God on Trial" is not "The Ten Commandments", but something vastly more nuanced, real, full of doubts, assertions, rebellious accusations and real thought-through meaning and worth. If I could, I would give it 11 out of AgustinCesaratti 31 October The best thing about this movie is that is claustrophobic, it's everything set in one place to feel what they are feeling. The performances are fine with good actors, but sometimes this is very hard to watch, you have to be patient because it's not fast.
It's all about argue between them and sometimes it gets though. I watched his TV drama with interest and felt as though I understood a little bit more about Jews and their beliefs.
Based on a true story,it tells of imprisoned Jews in Auschwitz awaiting death and deciding to have a trial to decide if God is guilty for their living hell.
It is pretty compelling and also a history lesson as various men argue their case for or against God. Here is an example of mass hysteria and celebrities make things real when they aren't so. How could someone allow their children to be raped by a sick perverted con man like this? Look no further that the followers of the Catholic religion who let the church hide rapists and get away with it because they didn't want to get in trouble with the church.
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