Silent Witnesses

Costa-Gavras' "Amen." brings to light the story of those who, during the Holocaust, saw all but said nothing.

By Tom Tugend

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/silent_witnesses_20030131/

The film "Amen." focuses not on the victims of the Holocaust, nor its perpetrators, but on the passive bystanders who allowed the killing machine to do its work by their silence.

"How was it possible for people to see their neighbors suddenly disappear and not ask what happened to them?" asked Costa-Gavras, the French director and co-writer of "Amen.," speaking by phone from Paris. (The veteran filmmaker, who was born in Greece, is listed as Constantin Gavras on his passport, but his screen credits read Costa-Gavras, without a first name.)

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