SINOPSIS
In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.
- Ulrich TukurKurt Gerstein
- Mathieu KassovitzRiccardo Fontana
- Ulrich MüheDoctor
- Michel DuchaussoyCardinal
- Ion CaramitruCount Fontana
- Marcel IuresPope
- Friedrich von ThunGerstein's Father
- Antje SchmidtMrs. Gerstein
- Hanns ZischlerGrawitz
- Sebastian KochHöss
- Erich HALLHUBERVon Rutta
- Burkhard HeylDirector
- Angus MacInnesTittman
- Bernd FischerauerBishop von Galen
- Pierre FranckhPastor Wehr
- Richard DurdenAmbassador Taylor
- Monica BleibtreuMrs. Hinze
- Justus von DohnányiBaron Von Otter
- Günther Maria HalmerPastor Dibelius
- August ZirnerVon Weizsäcker
- Horatiu MalaeleFritsche
- Ovidiu CunceaStephan Lux
- Markus HeringKarl
- Susanne LotharAlexandra Baltz
- Alex GeringasHelmut Franz