Bonhoeffer movie

I didn’t even know they made a movie about him, hadn’t seen any advertising for it. Went to see Gladiator 2 Wednesday and saw it listed on showtimes and that’s how I found out.

Probably gonna wait for streaming but it looks promising.

It was good, though primarily a straight forward presentation of the facts of his life without much style or originality in the story telling. Mostly accurate although there were certainly some things added/subtracted/combined as is usual. If you’re interested in Bonhoeffer it’s good enough to be worth going to see. As he’s a hero of mine, I would have liked it to have been better and produced with more talented people than you’ll get with Angel Studios. But I am glad someone wanted to make it.

Thanks for the responses guys! Much appreciated!

Watched it last night.

Wasn’t good. Dragged for the first hour +

You could literally walk into the theater an hour into the film and have missed absolutely nothing.

Was very disappointed that they didn’t focus more on his spying for the Abwehr.

Was extremely disappointed how they completely changed (and misrepresented) his death.

The best thing about the film was the casting of excellent German actors, even though no German is spoken in the movie.

Moritz Bleibtrau (Run Lola Run, Baader-Meinhof Complex) plays his father. The actor from Inglorious Bastards (the SS officer from the pub scene) is his bishop. And DJ Flula Borg is his brother-in-law, to name a few.