"In an impossible time, it takes impossible courage."

2024

2h 12m

6.7(77 votes)

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Overview

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.

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Cast & Crew

113 members

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Jonas Dassler

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Phileas Heyblom

Young Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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August Diehl

Martin Niemoller

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David Jonsson

Frank Fisher

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Flula Borg

Hans Dohnanyi

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Moritz Bleibtreu

Karl Bonhoeffer

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Nadine Heidenreich

Paula Bonhoeffer

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Greg Kolpakchi

Officer Ansel Knoblauch

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William Robinson

Eberhard Bethge

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Clarke Peters

Reverend Powell Sr.

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James Flynn

Dr. Rascher

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Lisa Hofer

Sabine Bonhoeffer

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Patrick Mölleken

Walter Bonhoeffer

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Simon Licht

Herman Punder

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Evan Hart

Vassily Kokorin

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Mark Wingett

Payne Best

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Vincent Franklin

Bishop Bell

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Ingo Brosch

Gerhard Jacobi

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Felix von Bredow

Rudolf-Christoph Von Gersdorff

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Tim Hudson

Winston Churchill

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Caroline Berry

Clementine Churchill

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Marc Bessant

Hitler

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John Keogh

Professor Fosdick

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Muiris Crowley

Hoble (Lead Officer)

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Katharina Heyer

Else Niemoller

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Arthur Riordan

Publican

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Luise Landau

Young Sabine Bonhoeffer

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Robert Besta

Rudolf Bamler

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John Akanmu

Louis Armstrong / Satchmo

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Mattis Feldman

Jan Niemoller

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Christopher Reinhardt

Dr. Reinhard Krause

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Jade Matthew

Christel Bonhoeffer

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Charlotte Martz

Young Christel Bonhoeffer

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Leonard Treyde

Klaus Bonhoeffer

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Victoria Grueber

Susanne Bonhoeffer

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Tomer Barash

Moses Kiefer

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Mark Huberman

Samuel

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James Craze

Bus Driver

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Toussaint Colombani

Swiss Guard 1

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Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen

Swiss Guard 2

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Andy Kellegher

Gestapo At The Buchenwalde

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Andreas Berger

Grim Gestapo #1

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Kurt Erickson

Church Goer 1

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Dagmar Döring

Church Goer 2

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Tobias Schäfer

Gestapo Officer Of The Youth

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Jörg Westphal

Gestapo At The Gallows

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Derek Carroll

Gestapo

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Jordan McGuinness

SS Officer 1

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Arne Gottschling

Another Prisoner

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Antoine Van Lierde

Rector

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Rachel Lally

Wife

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Johannes Heinrichs

Grabbing Man

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Milton Welsh

Ludwig Müller

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Roman Schomburg

Ulrich Wagner

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Joseph Palmer

Man in Sedan

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Marcus Lamb

Colonel Tresckow

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Scott William Winters

Innkeeper

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Mark de Carreau

Londoner

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Sorcha Real

Congregant

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Ciara Dan McGinnis

Berlin Passenger

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Alex O’Brien

Officer (uncredited)

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Mary T Lynch

Woman (uncredited)

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Johannes Schreiber

Fahrer

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Jean Schatz

SS Unteroffizier

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Jean-Michel Vovk

Prisoner #1

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Charles De Meester

Prisoner 2

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Lewis Goody

Prisoner 3

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Ruben Francq

Another Prisoner

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David Coffey Weakley

Jasper Montgomery Passenger

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Richard Wells

Another Bishop

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Sion Alun Davies

Sebastian

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Dada Ashi

Mattie Powell

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Lili Baldari

Girl in Tea Room

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Morgan Cooke

Executioner

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Pat Egan

Officer Franz Kohler

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Damien Donnelly

Church Attendee

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Nyla DeGrate

Student

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Nathan Edo

Third Student

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John Flanders

Bishop #4

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Aaran Donoghue

Gestapo Officer

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Gabriel Marie S. Debaty

Political Prisoner

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Mathieu Michel F. Devuyst

Political Prisoner

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David Faniel

Political Prisoner

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Guillame Alban V. Jousten

Political Prisoner

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Eliana Getachew

Another Student

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Eliana Getachew

Another Student

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Fabien Guilliams

Political Prisoner

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Dashiell James Komarnicki

Henry Maddox

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Remy Grace Komarnicki

Anne Maddox

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Andrew McCarthy

Prisoner

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Caolan McClafferty

Prisoner

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Lincoln McLain

Street Kid #2

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Suzann McLean

Another Churchgoer

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Daire McMahon

Gestapo

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Daithi Michael

Gestapo Officer

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Moritz Ross

Other Gestapo

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Jacky Nercessian

Pastor

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Des Meade

Scrivener

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Hugh O'Shea

Brit

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Ava Rose Paul

Ava

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Flynn Segura

Street Kid #1

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Harry Stone-Brown

Grim Gestapo #2

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Guy Dierckx

Gestapo Officer

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Charlie Stuart

Bishop #3

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Heather Zicko

Veronica Maddox

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Martin Zonderman

Prisoner Buchenwald

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Dean Panter

Clergyman

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Janet Grene

Berlin Passenger (uncredited)

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Ian Dillon

Church Attendee/Airplane Passenger (uncredited)

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Thomas O’Halloran

Nazi Officer (uncredited)

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Kenneth Barry

Church Attendee (uncredited)

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Ollie Ryan

Priest (uncredited)

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Thomas Hopkins

Jewish Prisoner

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