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Mar 3, 1991 · Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe: Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. With Edward Zentara, Christoph Waltz, Artur Barcis, Gustaw Lutkiewicz. The story of Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
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- Biography, Drama
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- 1991-03-03
Jul 14, 2014 · There Jan hears tragic news about ten random inmates sentenced to death by starvation by the Nazis as a punishment for his escape. One among the convicts is Fr. Maximillian Kolbe, a Franciscan...
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There Jan hears tragic news about ten random inmates sentenced by the Nazis to death by starvation as a punishment for his escape. One among the convicts is Fr. Maximillian Kolbe, a Franciscan priest who volunteered to die in place of one of the inmates.
A priest (Edward Zentara) offers his own life when the commandant of Auschwitz sentences 10 prisoners to die after another's escape.
- History, Drama
- Edward Zentara
- Krzysztof Zanussi
- Multiple Views of A Saint
- An Incomprehensible Act
- Saint and Sly Dog
- Confessor Or Martyr?
What exactly happened? Why did Kolbe do it? To this question there is no unequivocal answer. We must piece together a larger picture from the testimony of those who knew Kolbe, either before or in Auschwitz. Among these are a young Franciscan named Anselm (Artur Barciś) who witnessed Kolbe’s arrest during the Nazi roundup of Polish intellectuals; a...
Christoph Waltz—who went onto Hollywood success with his Oscar-winning roles in Quentin Tarantino’s lurid historical fantasies Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained—stars here in a World War II drama far more sober than his first Tarantino film (where he played a Jew-hunting Nazi). The German-Austrian actor plays a captured insurgent from Siles...
Using Jan as a foil, Zanussi slowly sketches a portrait of Kolbe in flashbacks, initially in episodes related by those who knew him. The saint emerges from the shadows—literally so in a key shot in the first substantial flashback, over a half hour into the film—as a figure of great integrity, discipline and intelligence, of outward action and inner...
Among the flashbacks is a well-known episode from Kolbe’s youth in which the boy (Raymund was his baptismal name) related to his mother how the Virgin Mary came to him offering two crowns, a white one for purity and a red one for martyrdom—and that he chose both of them. Late in the film, though, is a scene in the Vatican illustrating the theologic...
The famous French author's unique writing style captivates the reader with the heroic story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a modern apostle of Catholic evangelization, Marian spirituality, and a martyr of charity.
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Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe. After the war a man tries to piece together the story of Father Maximilian Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. Based on the real priest, who later became a catholic saint (1894-1941).
