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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin (2024)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
Style: historical drama, thought provoking, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, intense, period piece, atmospheric, christian film ...
Plot: nazi germany, world war two, holocaust, genocide, conscience, sacrifice, resistance, moral dilemma, religious faith, biopic, heroism, clergy, assassination, theology, european, character study, spy thriller, conspiracy, espionage, execution, martyrdom, underground movement, prison, spy, assassin ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, london

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Duration: 109 min.
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Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland (1989)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
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Truth & Treason (2025)
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The Spy (2019)
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Duration: 109 min.
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