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New Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic is a grossly misleading portrait of the anti-Nazi dissident

The complexities of history have always posed problems for commercial cinema. With rare exceptions, mainstream historical films tend to flatten the inconveniently irregular textures of individual biographies and their context into simpler templates of good and evil, valour and villainy.

The Conversation · Mar 7, 2025

‘Standing up against the devil’: how the far right tried to co-opt Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic

In the US, Todd Komarnicki’s biopic of the theologian murdered by the Nazis was marketed using Maga rhetoric. The film-maker explains the heartbreak this caused him

The Guardian - UK · Mar 5, 2025

What would Bonhoeffer do? Anti-Nazi pastor's legacy claimed, debated across political spectrum

Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: “This is the end — for me the beginning of life.”

The Independent UK · Jan 7, 2025