The Ninth Day
11/11/2004
In World War II, after a period of living hell on Earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other Catholic priests, Father Abbé Henri Kremer gets nine days’ leave to return to his hometown for his mother's funeral. During this period, the SS Gestapo lieutenant Gebhardt tries to persuade Henri, who was born into a silver-spooned and influential Luxembourgian family, to convince the local bishop to give up resisting the Germans and write a letter to the Vatican in the name of the Catholic Church of Luxembourg, convincing the Pope to support Hitler and the Nazi regime. The ambivalent Henri questions himself and the bishop about what he shall do. Loosely based on Jean Bernard's Nazi-era prison diary.
Movie Information
Ulrich Matthes
as Abbé Henri Kremer
August Diehl
as Untersturmführer Gebhardt
Hilmar Thate
as Bischof Philippe
Bibiana Beglau
as Marie Kremer
Germain Wagner
as Roger Kremer
Jean-Paul Raths
as Raymond Schmitt
Ivan Jiřík
as Armando Bausch
Götz Burger
as Generalvikar Gerard Mersch
Michael König
as Gauleiter Simon
Karel Dobrý
as Raportführer Bertram
Adolf Filip
as Professor Klimek (Kraków)
Petr Janiš
as Pater Nansen
Peter Varga
as Józef (Polish Inmate)
Václav Krátký
as SS-Mann
Vladimír Fiser
as Bischof Kozal
Zdeněk Pecháček
as Lagerführer
