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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Against stupidity we have no defense
Scenario
As the world teeters on the brink of destruction, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide. Niemoeller’s actor August Diehl previously portrayed an SS Gestapo officer in Nemilosrdni gadovi (2009) and a German citizen resisting conscription into the German army in Skriveni život (2019)..
There is no use in reasoning
Neither protests nor force can touch it. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved – indeed, a fool can counter them by criticizing them, and if they are indisputable, they can simply be dismissed as trivial exceptions.
At times, Bonhoeffer simply doesn’t come across as the erudite theologian he was, but rather as a texting Protestant
As a "docu-allegory," this is a solid 7; The historicity is woven in quite well, and the fictionalized account of his death is deeply Christian and compelling. But as a biography, the major errors (referring to the Eastern Front years before Barbarossa) and the relocation of the final scene of his death from Flossenburg with his co-conspirators to an anonymous isolated farm with a random group of strangers are a bridge too a rat Perhaps Germany restricts such things, but for me it was a missed opportunity not to use Flossenburg for these critical scenes, just as Sophie Scholl – The Last Days used the real guillotine that killed Scholl in the film.
The delay in watching the cavalcade of quotes is ultimately more than worth the time
However, this is a "must see" if you are willing to accept major deviations from history and do not expect a deep theological journey. Bonhoeffer reminds us that every generation faces its own evil; that each individual must either act or let evil go; and that Christ is the One who guides that choice.