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The Ninth Day is a 2004 German historical drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Ulrich Matthes and August Diehl. It was released by Kino International. The film is about a Catholic priest from Luxembourg who is imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp, but released for nine days.
Nov 11, 2004 · The Ninth Day: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate, Bibiana Beglau. A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Father Henri Kremer (Ulrich Matthes) is a Roman Catholic dissenter from Luxembourg imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp. When Kremer is granted a nine-day furlough...
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Volker Schlöndorff’s The Ninth Day, a fictionalized account of Abbé Bernard’s Dachau experiences, depicts these horrors with stark objectivity and restraint. But it’s the brief furlough from camp that makes The Ninth Day more than just another concentration camp film.
In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests, Father Abbé Henri Kremer gets a nine-day leave to return to his home town for his mother's funeral.
The Ninth Day is a 2004 German historical drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Ulrich Matthes and August Diehl. It was released by Kino International. The film is about a Catholic priest from Luxembourg who is imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp, but released for nine days.
Inspired by the true story of a dissident priest's temporary furlough from Dachau, The Ninth Day transforms an ethical crisis into a nail biting showdown and unspeakable horror into transcendent redemption.
