Last night, I have watched a movie titled as;
Bonhoeffer:Pastor Spy Assassin
Filmed in 2024. My brother recommended it to me a few days ago. I scarcely watch any movie recently. But his recommendation and the title have made me spend a couple of hours for this movie,
Bonhoeffer is a well known theologian as well as a pator who have founded the Confessing Church against the Nazism in the Nazis era. He has involved with an assasination of Hitler and was executed a few weeks before the end of WWII.
As I have written in a previous post in this blog, here, I thought I had known something of his life and thoughts. This movie has, however, let me know quite few things about his life unknown to me. For example, when studying abroad at Union Theological Seminary in NY, he seemed to have had close relationship with black Christians. It was also a surprise he had privately known Martin Niemoeller, formerly a member of national socialistic faction, later another founder of the Confessing Church. In july 1944, the plan by Bonhoeffer and others of assassination of Hitler has ended in failure. which made him captured by Nazis Gestapo. He was executed only a few weeks prior to the advance of the allied forces toward Berlin.
To me, this movie for a couple of hours seemed too short to describe about his life, full of dramatic events, private or public. I am still deeply impressed at his life described in it. His presence as well as his theolgical works and the Confessing Church founded by him and others have enabled the Christianity in Germany as well as in the world to survive the WWII and post the war period.
No doubt Nazis was an absolute evil in the world. On the other hand, there were people who had supported, either fanatically or not, the authoritarean dictatorship in Nazis era. Even after the war, I have read, those who participated the anti Nazis movements and even their families have been treated like treason to the nation for a while. In this movie, that populism approving the dictatorship was also expressed. The same kind of affinity to fascism of people still exists, doesn't it? The life of Bonhoeffer seems to bitterly ask us about that.
As I knew what ending would be expected in this movie, it has gone through in grave and tragedic tone. I was relieved to see the ending featuring the Sermon on the Mount.
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