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Article Excerpt
The Ninth Day is the best film so far this year. No reader of NCR should miss it, even if it is in German. Emotionally demanding, it tells the story of Abbe Henri Kremer (Ulrich Matthes), a priest from Luxembourg imprisoned in Dachau by the Nazis for helping the French Resistance. Drawing heavily on an episode from a Dachau-diary kept by Fr. Jean Bernard that deserves translation, it tells how the Nazis give Kremer a nine-day furlough, after which he must return to prison unless he can get his bishop to give up his opposition to the occupation.
Director Volker Schlondorff, internationally known for "Young Torless" and "The Tin Drum," avoids pious cliches in presenting the priest's dilemma. His face ravaged, his body exhausted, Kremer knows that failure to collaborate will endanger both his family and fellow priests in Dachau....
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