Filmforum, Germany 2011, 64 Min.
On 10th November 1943, three chaplains from Lübeck, Eduard Müller, Johannes Prassek and Hermann Lange and the Protestant pastor Karl-Friedrich Stellbrink were beheaded by the Nazis. Their crime: They resisted the national socialist terror regime in the spirit of Jesus Christ. They preached the dissident sermons of Bishop von Galen and they openly named injustices where there were injustices to be named. At the centre lies the ecomenic work of the four men who overcame their confessional boundaries to profess their faith and act accordingly. On 25th June 2011 the Catholic clerics are beatified in a festive ceremony in Lübeck. Pastor Stellbrink is honorifically included in the commemoration. On this occasion Jürgen Holbrecht's strikingly staged documentary is finally completed after a ten-year development phase and premieres at the Luther Church. The film features statements by contemporary witnesses, and gives an in-depth portrayal of the role of Pastor Stellbrink, who joined the NSDAP in 1933 before his work in Lübeck gradually made him a decided opponent of the Nazis.
Director Jürgen Hobrecht
Cast Sprecher Narrators: Volker Lechtenbrink, Joachim Jauer, Ralph Kübler, Jürgen Hobrecht, Viktor Pawel, Frank Braun
Website http://jhobrecht.wordpress.com/
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