Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

• Katharina
• Renn Productions
• Ulrich Tukur
• Mathieu Kassovitz
• Ulrich Mühe
• Michel Duchaussoy
• Marcel Iureș
• Ion Caramitru
• Friedrich von Thun
• Antje Schmidt