The Ninth Day
A morally tortured priest in Nazi-occupied Europe
Henri Kremer is a Catholic priest in Nazi-occupied Luxembourg who has been sent to Dachau for denouncing the regime. Kremer receives a furlough home, where he meets a Nazi officer who wants to make a deal. If Kremer agrees to convince the local bishop that Nazism is, in fact, good for Christianity—or will say so himself—he and his family will go free. As Kremer, German actor Ulrich Matthes is
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