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14 lug 2014 · 277. 44K views 9 years ago. Film Trailer – LIFE FOR LIFE: Maximillian Kolbe Touching film about Maximillian Kolbe, a man who gave his life and volunteer to die instead of another....
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3 mar 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
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.
Filmed on location in more than 20 cities across Poland and the United States, this true story examines and chronicles the phenomenal lives and spiritual legacy of Saint Faustina Kowalksa, Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and Blessed John Paul II, modern day "Apostles of Mercy". Click here to buy.
- 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...
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). IMDb 6.4 1 h 31 min 1991. PG-13.
Edward Kłosiński Cinematografia. Wojciech Kilar Musica. Le recensioni dei critici. Dopo la guerra, un uomo cerca di ricostruire la storia di Padre Maximilian Kolbe, che nel campo di concentramento di Auschwitz si offrì volontario per morire al posto di uno sconosciuto. Il prete, realmente esistito, fu poi proclamato santo dalla Chiesa Cattolica.
