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A Hero You Never Knew in ‘Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.’ (Movie Review)
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
Rating: 9/10
Director: Todd Komarnicki
Writer: Todd Komarnicki
Style: Drama/ Thriller/ Biopic
Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Review by Mike Szymanski
Great filmmakers still find true stories in past heroes that have yet to be told. Who could possibly imagine that someone of heroic proportions involved in WWII has not already been canonized in a great movie.
Komarnicki became fascinated with the German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was an outspoken anti-Nazi as he watched Hitler grow in popularity in his country. He previously wrote “Sully” directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks as the pilot who successfully landed a damaged plane in the Hudson River.
Bonhoeffer was a neo-orthodox theologian and a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His 1937 writings about a Christians role in the secular world in the book “The Cost of Discipleship” is still a big…
