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- Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
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Summaries. Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
Plot. Jewish prisoners in a barrack at Auschwitz question why God has let this happen to them, His chosen people, and decide to try God in absentia to get at the answer. This becomes an extended debate on why God permits evil.
- 2008
- Nick Green, Tristin Norwell
Nov 9, 2008 · With Joseph Muir, Josef Altin, Ashley Artus, Alexi Kaye Campbell. Awaiting their inevitable deaths at one of the worst concentration camps, a group of Jews make a rabbinical court to decide whether God has gone against the Holy Covenant and if He is the one guilty for their suffering.
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- Drama, War
- Andy De Emmony
- 2008-11-09
Wiesel contends he had witnessed such a trial as a child in the death camps. But Wiesel’s version transplants the debate to seventeenth-century Russia, in the wake of a pogrom. Boyce, however, argues that the original story is apocryphal, that no such trial of God by Auschwitz prisoners ever took place.
Sep 3, 2008 · Synopsis by Jason Buchanan. In a universe presumably ruled by a benevolent, all-powerful God, how can events such as the Holocaust possibly come to pass? This is the question posed by a group of inmates in Auschwitz, the Third Reich's most notorious death camp, in this reflective war drama written by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions, Code 46 ...
God on Trial is an original and incendiary spin on the dialogue-fuelled drama which debates with itself in a single, claustrophobic location. Predominantly based in a solitary concentration camp barrack, the plot is ostensibly straightforward.
Director. Frank Cottrell Boyce. Writer. In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
